Somebody once told me that to become a good writer, you must step outside yourself and push yourself further than you thought you could.

Recently, I have put that theory to the test and found it to be true. When you put your negativity aside and stride towards the more positive, rewarding attributes you know are true about yourself, the better chance you’ll have to strengthen your skills and perfect your talents.

For me, the limits I must push myself against are time and perfection. When I sit down to write, I think the content will just flow right out of my mind and I will be on to the next task before I know it. But while I am actually sitting down and doing writing, I always tend to find myself stumbling for just the right words and trying to make my content sound just right. I find myself caught up in trying to be a professional so much that sometimes it leads me into having writer’s block.

But with this new technique I am implementing into my life, I am going to push myself. I am going to push myself to write within specific time parameters. And I am also going to push myself to not search so long for the perfect word or phrase that I forget my thought.

I do believe that if I follow this exercise and push myself to exert what I tend to deny, I will be fulfilling my goal of producing higher quantities of content, as well as producing more quality work in a more timely manner.