Naima B. Robert – Lost hope in writing your book Listen to this!

Hey there. Naima B Robert here, award winning

author, editor and coach to women like you

who have an idea and want to make

it into a book.

So in today's video, I will be talking

about

the strategy

of reframing

And for my writers out there, who are

in a current state of flux or uncertainty,

this is

your superpower.

The human being's ability to reframe

is

is just it's it's an amazing gift and

I want to invite you to use it

right now if you have found that the

current fear and uncertainty has made you, kind

of, you know, lose sight of your

dream, lose track with your plans to get

your book out in 2020.

So reframing is very simple.

All that it means is that

we understand that

a situation

can be viewed in various ways. So for

example,

at the moment the frame that you're seeing

is of me in my scarf, in my

niqab,

with, the background of a bookshelf.

But if I choose a different frame,

for example,

this frame,

which is not a great frame at all,

you can't see me anymore.

You can't see me, you can't see what

I look like, you can't see where I'm

sitting.

But the interesting thing is

I'm still here.

Does that make sense?

If I change

the way that I look at a situation,

I can change the way I feel about

a situation.

So if I use the frame, if we

decide to play a game and we decide

to use the frame of

inconvenience

to look at the current situation.

I'm sure that you could spot

10, 20, 30 examples of things that are

inconvenient

right now.

In fact, I I don't don't don't don't

don't take me too literally. Don't go too

far down that rabbit hole. Let's let let's

come back. Let's come back. Let's change the

frame because inconvenience is a frame that could

really take us off right now. Okay.

Let's take the frame of opportunity

and let's focus on ourselves as writers.

What could be great

about

this time of

lockdown, of self isolation, of kind of really

being much, much more homebound than ever?

What could be great about that for us

as writers?

Well,

more time

potentially.

More time to think,

more time to write,

more time to commit.

Some of the

some of our most famous writers

wrote their masterpieces

in isolation

because that is a time when you have

some quiet time. You have time to think.

You have time to put in the work.

You have time to to to to do

this, right,

when you're not kind of competing with, you

know, tens of tens of other activities out

there. You know, friends calling you out, family

needing you to come here to go there,

shopping trips, 3, 4, 5 shopping trips, you

know, to school run, all this kind of

thing. So

reframe

reframe

using the frame of opportunity.

Could it be possible

that

this time,

this downtime that we've been given

is the best thing

that could ever have happened to you with

regards to your book.

Could you be one of those people

who actually

uses this time

not to contract in fear,

not to zone out and

just

take on loads and loads and loads and

loads and loads of weight from snacking and,

watching Netflix all day.

But actually produces

something

amazing

and comes out on the other end of

this crisis, of this lockdown

with her book

in her hand.

Could that be you?

And if not, why not?

So my first

call to you is to reframe this situation,

reframe everything about your situation right now. Why

is this actually the perfect time for you

to write this book?

We have a group of women that we're

working with on a special

lockdown book experiment. It's a case study program

and I'd love for you to be a

part of it. So if it sounds like

you would enjoy working with a group of

experts who can help you to get clarity

on your book, get clarity on your market,

create your outline, decide on your structure and

actually write this book all the way

to your editing point,

then get in touch.

Respond to this email, comment below,

with 'committed'. Let's have a chat to see

if it's a fit.

Look out for my next video coming,

very soon when I will share more of

my strategies

for those of us who want to write

and want to make an impact on the

world, want to leave a legacy.

How we can make the most of this

time right now to stand up and show

up.

I'll see you soon.