WRITE YOUR WRITING GOAL

Write It Down Make It Happen is the title of a book by Henriette Anne Klauser which relies on the premise that if you write down what you want your goal to be, the goal will happen.

"You can write it down any way you want and still have results.  Jim Carrey wrote it once and put it in his pocket; Scott Adams and Suze Orman wrote it over and over daily; my son Peter wrote it and lost it.  My point is that anybody can do this and there is no right or wrong way, because everyone does it differently, and it still works." (p.22)

Does this mean that whenever you write down your goal, it WILL happen?  Well, how could we possibly know that?  We cannot possibly interview all the people who have ever written down their goals.  However, there was a Harvard University research study done many years ago that revealed that people who wrote down their long term goals, even if they didn't look at them over the years, were more likely to achieve their goals than were the people who did not write them down.

So, what is your writing goal?  It need not be grand.  It need only be in writing.  What if you want to be sure to develop a routine of writing every day for an hour?  or a half hour?  Or to complete three morning pages (as per Julia Cameron)?  Or you want to write a self help book by six months from now?  Or a novel by one year from now?  Or an article a week?  You have the idea.

Writing down your goal makes it real.  So, if you're like many people, you can write your goal and see yourself move forward towards your goal even without your conscious awareness.  Why not try it if you haven't?