WCP204 🐘🐘 Don’t think of baby twin elephants

The Writing Coach Podcast with Rebecca L. Weber

Once you start fact checking your mind, you’ll notice there’s a lot of stuff you’re telling yourself that isn’t true AND that isn’t helpful. This awareness doesn’t mean that the faulty thought won’t keep coming back. It’s usually counterproductive to tell yourself, “Don’t think that!”

You can instead decide ahead of time what you do want to think and practice it to help build a new neural pathway in your mind.

Today’s episode looks at one of the most detrimental thoughts that a freelancer can have when pitching stories. It’s so pervasive that you may not see it as a problem—or you may feel powerless to change it. Let’s unpack this way of thinking so that you can recognize it and make a plan for a new and more powerful way to get assignments with your ideal clients.

🔗 Mentioned in this episode:

WCP 1: What’s your problem?

WCP 2: Thinking thoughts and feelings feels

WCP 4: Pitching: The perfect black T-shirt

WCP 84: Excitement!

WCP 118 Best and worst clients

Twin elephants at Addo

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