Naima B. Robert – Lost hope in writing your book Listen to this!
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In this video, a speaker discusses the strategy of reframing and rethinking a situation. They suggest using the frame of opportunity to reframe the situation and create a new outline, structure, and structure for the book. The speaker also invites the audience to participate in a case study program and offers to share more strategies for those who want to write and make an impact on the world.
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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.