A Gift for the Fightin’ Bookworms – an eBook That Can Change Your Career (and Maybe Your Life)
Mar 9th, 2010 | By Jon Bard | Category: Bonus Freebies, Brand New on the CBI Clubhouse!
I recently met a remarkable woman who truly defined the spirit of perseverance and positive thinking. Through her, I learned a secret that just may change everything about your future as a children’s writer. In this brief eBook, I share it.
This eBook is our gift to you, and you’re free to share it with friends and colleagues.
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Dear Jon & Laura,
You have no idea what this gift meant, means and will mean to me from this point on. I’ve read your ebook, I’ve listened to the audiobook and when I look up, I will see a note saying “Change my mindset. Know. Expect. Be certain.” every day, for the rest of my life.
Thank you.
Sunny regards.
That fantastic, Liliana! Keep spreading those positive vibes…..
Thank you Jon and Laura! This e-book puts my writing goals into their proper prospective. Instead of spinning my wheels, I can finally race down the road (feels like the top’s down with the wind tousling my hair) and cross the finish line. Wow, what a feeling!
Also, thanks for your commitment to making us better writers.
There is a substance of thinking that fills the inner space. It is what you project and believe. Believe it, see it done, and follow your destiny. Do not doubt it for one second. Before you fall asleep, say it out loud, and see the visions that you create just as you want them fullfilled. Do this for 30 nights, and you will be amazed at the changes that come about in your life.
Thank you Jon and Laura for bringing these thoughts back to your flock! You are truely wonderful people to follow.
ElAspin
Thank you Jon for the e-book. When I started reading, As a Man Thinketh, I couldn’t believe it! In the past year I’ve been reading and learning a lot with the same philosophy…The Secret, Having It All, The Vision Board. I was surprised this came from you through CBI. It just enforces how real this is. Thank you for believing and sending it out there to all of us bookworms! “Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be.”
Best of luck to all!
Kathy
thax for everything
This is very inspiring. The lesson is consistent with the teachings of Julia Cameron in the Artist’s Way (which I highly recommend). The only thing standing in your way is you. Still trying to get out of my own way, and this helps a great deal! Thanks Jon.
I really loved this ebook, and have listened to the audio book twice already. Thanks Jon!
This is really great. Thanks so much for sharing.
I don’t believe it helps to tell yourself unrealistic things. Saying “I am Bruce Li” may help because it may boost your physical energy. But saying “I am a beloved, famous, award-winning children’s author” when you’re not–how does that help your writing? A study was done that showed this kind of positive thinking did not help. I think saying “Everyone starts somewhere. I have the talent. If I work hard I will succeed” is more helpful. To me, attaining recognition is a reward for hard work, but to master the work is the goal–the recognition is secondary. Building confidence surely is key–but in an honest way.
Imagining myself sitting down and writing and attaching a feeling of excitement to the image–to feel pen hit paper, to feel myself lost in imagination– is more helpful to me.
I hear you Tor, but consider this: when athletes use visualization techniques before a race or a game, they don’t imagine themselves trying, or hoping to win. They imagine themselves winning. They’re not being dishonest — they’re giving themselves the winner’s mindset. We all need the winner’s mindset to succeed at anything.
I know this works. I have experienced it, but I forgot. I needed reminding. Thank you.
Dear Jon and Laura,
Thank you for sending this very helpful and practical e-book. It’s the best pep talk for writers and guidepost for a life well-lived I’ve seen. Your organization is the best there is for motivating writers and setting them on the right path. I will continue to sing your praises to all my writer friends. You two are the best.
Warm wishes,
Catherine DePino
This is wonderful! Thank you so much!
I tend to agree with Tor. All the really great writers I know as opposed to successful writers have a measure of self doubt. This is partly what makes them great because they are willing to criticise their own work and make it better. Sitting down with the belief that you are already great is dangerous because it can stop you being honest about what you have written and willing to do the next draft and the next. I sit down with the belief that the new idea I am writing is a good one and that I can make it work. But I also believe that I have to be willing to give it everything it takes to make it succeed. Sometimes this may lead to abandoning the work. It doesn’t matter because I have learnt a lot in the process and that learning will go into my next work. I don’t want work out there that has magically secured a contract because of my self belief. I want work out there that earns every inch of it’s space. Where the positive thinking comes in for me is in conquering the fear that can sometimes cripple us and stop us even starting a new work.
“I don’t want work out there that has magically secured a contract because of my self belief. I want work out there that earns every inch of it’s space.”
Hi Liliana,
The work that secures a contract didn’t do it magically because of self-belief — it did it because the writer overcame his or her self-doubts and negative inner thoughts that said “don’t bother, you’re no good, you’ll never be published” No great author ever listens to those voices, and that, in its entirety, is what the point of the ebook is. Using a dramatic device such as telling yourself that you’re already a great writer is the tool many people need to silence that inner doubt. You may not need that kind of approach, but you certainly have some mechanism by which you do that, or else you wouldn’t be an active writer.
All great writers I know have a measure of self-doubt too. They’re human. But each of them — to a man or woman — ignores their self-doubt when it really matters. If you can’t learn to do that, you’ll never be successful, no matter how talented you are.
It’s not about self-delusion and magic — it’s about confidence. And confident people work smarter, stay more focused, are more persistent and perform better at anything than non-confident people. Always.
There’s a story about Jim Carrey who, when he was living out of his car in Hollywood, wrote a check to himself for $10,000,000 that said “for acting services rendered”. he carried that check with him until he replaced with an actual check for that amount.
Was he delusional? No — he was reminding himself of his value and his talent regardless of his circumstances and telling himself not to give up because great things were ahead of him. Someone with that sort of future-thinking confidence is unstoppable. And I want all my people to be unstoppable!
Best,
Jon
Thank you Jon, I am listening to it as I now write
Also, I was given a copy of “As a Woman Thinketh’ many years ago. So it does exist in writing 
I must admit that this week has been intense and calling for this message…Thank you again! Have a blessed weekend!