Write Your Way Through A Funk

Have you ever reached an impasse in your goals, and don't think you can go any farther? Try this. Pick up your pen and a notebook and write. Without stopping.

If you discover that you are angry at a turn of events not going your way, chances are that beneath the anger is fear. Let your writing help you come to the fear, and see what happens when you take it on.

If the situation seems hopeless and you have exhausted all avenues (so you think), if you know where you want to be and don't have a clue how to get there, write. Cover the page and keep on writing. Cover the next one too. Go on to the third. You will be surprised at your own power, and the solutions you will generate. You will experience a shift in your thinking, and most likely a breakthrough.

Write your way right through the funk and through to resolution.

Beyond all written whining something is waiting, but you need to stick to it until you find it. Go on with that pen, instead of giving in, until you get a sudden burst of energy and a surprise for going the extra mile.

The best stuff, the aha!, is often right past the place where you think you have run out of ideas or solutions.

Resolve to keep on writing until you come to the point where the light peeks through again. Almost seamlessly, before you know it, your complaining will shift to a "I suppose I could . . ." and then, subtly, to a "To-do today."