WHAT'S YOUR AUTHENTIC SWING?
Do you have the ability to do something that nobody else can do?
Think about that.
Do you do something unique?
Sure you do. Maybe you don't know what it is yet. The new book The Authentic Swing by Steven Pressfield is a little gem to help you discover your swing/gift/voice.
Like a golfer, everyone has an authentic swing. Maybe it's the way you cook, garden, write screenplays, raise your kids, sing songs or play a sport? You're on this planet for a reason.
To share. To give back. To discover. To teach.
Steven is a successful novelist (The Gates of Fire, The Legend of Bagger Vance). He also writes wonderful non-fiction (The War of Art and Turning Pro). I have a shelf of his books at home. He inspires me to write, to trust my Muse and to treat my creativity like a pro. He's my inspiration.
This weekend Steven will appear on the OWN network to sit down with Oprah Winfrey on her show Super Soul Sunday. Set your DVR. This hour interview you won't want to miss, especially if you are seeking to find your purpose or a way to stay on course with your passion in life.
Steven wrote for 30 years and went unpublished. He never quit. He worked successfully in Hollywood for awhile, had an agent and wrote movie scripts. But then he realized he wanted to write a book. He bailed on Hollywood and his agent (or the agent bailed on him) and he sat down and wrote The Legend of Bagger Vance. It changed his life. That novel about golf became a hit and eventually was turned into the movie starring Matt Damon and Will Smith.
Steven's new book The Authentic Swing gives tips to writers (but you can apply it to whatever your goal is) that will guide us to finish a book or novel. His advice to "cover the canvas" means to begin. Just start your project. Throw it all up on the canvas. Don't hold back. Don't judge. Just get it out of your head or soul or heart. Be free. Get it down on paper as fast as you can.
Then, like a golfer, you can focus on your game -- refine it -- develop it -- your God-given talent and acquired skills. You can focus on your concentration, techniques, keeping your head in the game, overcoming the sense to choke and quit under pressure or to take your eye off the ball.
Who are you without your labels or self-judgements? Who are you, Pressfield asks, when you're not a wife, husband, mother, father, boyfriend, girlfriend, employer, son, daughter -- insert any label. Who are you deep down inside when you strip away all of that?
Who are YOU?
That is where your authentic swing comes from. Your voice, talent comes from places none of us can fully explain. Is it in our DNA? God-given gifts? Luck? The most important thing is to let it be free -- not to confine it, or judge it, or abandon it when times are tough. Just believe and get busy.
Swing. Swing big. Find your authentic swing and let the world be awed.
Until next time,
Janet
Janet J. Lawler is a screenwriter, playwright and published author. Her debut novel From the Ground Up is now available on Kindle and Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F3CYSU8
Do you have the ability to do something that nobody else can do?
Think about that.
Do you do something unique?
Sure you do. Maybe you don't know what it is yet. The new book The Authentic Swing by Steven Pressfield is a little gem to help you discover your swing/gift/voice.
Like a golfer, everyone has an authentic swing. Maybe it's the way you cook, garden, write screenplays, raise your kids, sing songs or play a sport? You're on this planet for a reason.
To share. To give back. To discover. To teach.
Steven is a successful novelist (The Gates of Fire, The Legend of Bagger Vance). He also writes wonderful non-fiction (The War of Art and Turning Pro). I have a shelf of his books at home. He inspires me to write, to trust my Muse and to treat my creativity like a pro. He's my inspiration.
This weekend Steven will appear on the OWN network to sit down with Oprah Winfrey on her show Super Soul Sunday. Set your DVR. This hour interview you won't want to miss, especially if you are seeking to find your purpose or a way to stay on course with your passion in life.
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| Steven Pressfield visits Oprah on Super Soul Sunday |
Steven's new book The Authentic Swing gives tips to writers (but you can apply it to whatever your goal is) that will guide us to finish a book or novel. His advice to "cover the canvas" means to begin. Just start your project. Throw it all up on the canvas. Don't hold back. Don't judge. Just get it out of your head or soul or heart. Be free. Get it down on paper as fast as you can.
Then, like a golfer, you can focus on your game -- refine it -- develop it -- your God-given talent and acquired skills. You can focus on your concentration, techniques, keeping your head in the game, overcoming the sense to choke and quit under pressure or to take your eye off the ball.
Who are you without your labels or self-judgements? Who are you, Pressfield asks, when you're not a wife, husband, mother, father, boyfriend, girlfriend, employer, son, daughter -- insert any label. Who are you deep down inside when you strip away all of that?
Who are YOU?
That is where your authentic swing comes from. Your voice, talent comes from places none of us can fully explain. Is it in our DNA? God-given gifts? Luck? The most important thing is to let it be free -- not to confine it, or judge it, or abandon it when times are tough. Just believe and get busy.
Swing. Swing big. Find your authentic swing and let the world be awed.
Until next time,
Janet
Janet J. Lawler is a screenwriter, playwright and published author. Her debut novel From the Ground Up is now available on Kindle and Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F3CYSU8
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