08-12-2016, 12:20 AM
Stage 1 day 24
It's always nice to have friends with similar vision.
One of my close biz friends has been helping me cement the mindset of using the next 12 months or so to develop myself (meaning my rep and connections) in the copy world. I'm doing the same for him in his own new ventures, so it's more of a mutually benefiting kind of thing.
The great thing about all that - and I won't be taking this for granted - is that the motivational BS we say to each other is kinda just part of our natural dialogue.
I have other friends who are only loosely "kind of, but not really" vision oriented people who i can bounce ideas off of, but not nearly as much as my main buddy.
These are the people who talk a lot, but don't have lives that reflect their dialogue. My friend and I are in the same straight-shooting boat, and the bottom line is the results we produce. We don't f#$k around.
That's sort of the upside to this week, which i was longing for so dearly when the slump first hit last weekend.
I really had to adjust my emotional subconscious focus to hammer in the fact that large success in my copy biz might not come for a little while.
Considering how hard hitting and action oriented I am, this was hard to chew on. But the emotional integration of that idea, to go from incredible discomfort to resilient "alright, let's do this" attitude...well, let's just say that can make all the difference in the world.
Knowing consciously and rationally (logically) that it will take a while to develop yourself is NOT the same thing as having your subconscious accept your current journey and be congruent with your actions in making things happen.
I had to do a special manifestation experiment to really assimilate this, but it should be sliding into gear over these 11 days (that's how long the ritual lasts).
Ohhhh, and one last thing. Copywriters might be good at producing sales copy that induces action, but many of them (almost said 'most' there, but that might not be true) just aren't good at teaching it.
I'm seeing more and more as I get advice and nuggets from successful writers, and often they tend to not be conscious enough to understand how they're doing what they're doing.
It's like knowing how to disassemble a car and being the master at that. But teaching others how to do it? Many try, but few will really excel at coherently expressing what they do to others.
What's a bit crazy, though understandable, is the fact that it's so PROFITABLE to be successful and release products 'revealing' how you did what you did. This literally separates the men from the boys in who can actually teach a single coherent thought. It's pretty remarkable.
Though things are technically slow right now in developing the copy stuff, that's okay.
I'm preparing myself for a longer haul type situation where the skills i build today will create a (hopefully) stampede-like momentum later that will benefit me 100x.
Now, back to the grind.
It's always nice to have friends with similar vision.
One of my close biz friends has been helping me cement the mindset of using the next 12 months or so to develop myself (meaning my rep and connections) in the copy world. I'm doing the same for him in his own new ventures, so it's more of a mutually benefiting kind of thing.
The great thing about all that - and I won't be taking this for granted - is that the motivational BS we say to each other is kinda just part of our natural dialogue.
I have other friends who are only loosely "kind of, but not really" vision oriented people who i can bounce ideas off of, but not nearly as much as my main buddy.
These are the people who talk a lot, but don't have lives that reflect their dialogue. My friend and I are in the same straight-shooting boat, and the bottom line is the results we produce. We don't f#$k around.
That's sort of the upside to this week, which i was longing for so dearly when the slump first hit last weekend.
I really had to adjust my emotional subconscious focus to hammer in the fact that large success in my copy biz might not come for a little while.
Considering how hard hitting and action oriented I am, this was hard to chew on. But the emotional integration of that idea, to go from incredible discomfort to resilient "alright, let's do this" attitude...well, let's just say that can make all the difference in the world.
Knowing consciously and rationally (logically) that it will take a while to develop yourself is NOT the same thing as having your subconscious accept your current journey and be congruent with your actions in making things happen.
I had to do a special manifestation experiment to really assimilate this, but it should be sliding into gear over these 11 days (that's how long the ritual lasts).
Ohhhh, and one last thing. Copywriters might be good at producing sales copy that induces action, but many of them (almost said 'most' there, but that might not be true) just aren't good at teaching it.
I'm seeing more and more as I get advice and nuggets from successful writers, and often they tend to not be conscious enough to understand how they're doing what they're doing.
It's like knowing how to disassemble a car and being the master at that. But teaching others how to do it? Many try, but few will really excel at coherently expressing what they do to others.
What's a bit crazy, though understandable, is the fact that it's so PROFITABLE to be successful and release products 'revealing' how you did what you did. This literally separates the men from the boys in who can actually teach a single coherent thought. It's pretty remarkable.
Though things are technically slow right now in developing the copy stuff, that's okay.
I'm preparing myself for a longer haul type situation where the skills i build today will create a (hopefully) stampede-like momentum later that will benefit me 100x.
Now, back to the grind.
