Who do you think you are?

A great playwright?

Or a starving artist who hopes to be a great playwright someday?

Are you a professional, or just an amateur?

What you truly believe to be true, will come true.

If you believe you are a great playwright now, you will do what it take to excel in your writing and your career.

If you believe your voice is unique and important, your voice will be unique and important.

What you believe, before you see it in reality as true, will create your reality!

So you are writing everyday, and studying your craft, but what are you doing to change your beliefs about yourself and your possibilities?

Oh my God, is this is some New Age seminar?

No, not at all.

Powerful congruent, and clear beliefs about what is possible for you, will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. You will make it real. That is the power of a powerful, congruent and clear belief.

And if you believe you are not good enough yet, or you will never be a Broadway playwright, guess what?

So I dare you, as part of your playwright training, to discover what you REALLY believe about yourself, the things that were programed into your unconscious when you were a child, the things that have taken you far, and also stopped you dead in your tracks.

For most of my adult life, I believed FEAR was actually my intuition. Funny, huh?

So for most of my adult life, I was scared.

Scared of people, scared of success, scared by this big ugly and imaginary thing called FEAR that I thought was something helping me.

And then one day, I woke up, like from a bad dream, and I felt the fear, and I could see it wasn't real, yet the thought of the fear controlled so many of my actions, and hence, my life.

So I watched myself thoughout the course of a week, and noticed when Fear appeared, and I challenged it with a simple question:

Is this real, this horrible event or outcome I am projecting into the future?

And 99.9% of the time, my answer was...

"No, this is not real. It is made up. It is imaginary, and it has held me in its jaw for most of my life."

So I continued to ask the question, and I received the same answer, and I could clearly see, I had created an entire world, and an entire universe called my life, which was NOT real. It was a re - creation of the Fear I experienced in my childhood which I allowed to reverberate into my future.

But this is kind of normal, especially if you experience trauma in your youth, and who doesn't?

So how do you step out of this “Mental Construct of Fear” that you have created?

First off, start asking the question.

What am I frightened of? Is it real?

Go through a week or even a month of noticing when FEAR comes up and tells you NOT to do something, that a part of you deep inside, knows, that you should do.

As you notice, you will see that 99.9% of the time FEAR is simply made up. It's not real.

And as you continue, your intuition, that still strong voice inside you, that part of you that knows, will make a switcheroo with Fear, and you will feel motivated by "YES!" and "I know I can." and "What was I thinking? This is not hard at all!"

Are you afraid to do what it takes to be a successful playwright?

Make another choice.

The one that comes from your gut, your soul, that still strong voice inside of you, the part of you that knows, and watch your life and your career unfold in miraculous ways.

And if you think this blog post is New Age bullshit, ask yourself the question:

Why does this blog post frighten me?

You are so much more than your negative, limiting beliefs.

Now write like it.