Comments on: Calling Out the Inner Doomsayer http://www.mindfultimemanagement.com/2009/09/calling-out-the-inner-doomsayer/ Relief from overwhelm for entrepreneurs and creative professionals Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:39:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Janet Bailey http://www.mindfultimemanagement.com/2009/09/calling-out-the-inner-doomsayer/comment-page-1/#comment-228 Janet Bailey Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:00:51 +0000 http://www.mindfultimemanagement.com/?p=185#comment-228 @Kate - Congratulations on the 3 to 4 pages a day. I'll have to try doodling---might distract the doomsayer... @Kate – Congratulations on the 3 to 4 pages a day. I’ll have to try doodling—might distract the doomsayer…

]]> By: Kate Temple-West http://www.mindfultimemanagement.com/2009/09/calling-out-the-inner-doomsayer/comment-page-1/#comment-226 Kate Temple-West Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:40:57 +0000 http://www.mindfultimemanagement.com/?p=185#comment-226 I love the phrase inner doomsayer. There is something ridiculous about it, which makes it easier to laugh at... at least from a distance. I wouldn't try to stop the doomsayers in Times Square from doing their thing, so why try to soothe the one in my head? Short writing sessions are working for me right now for a (scary for me) first draft of a long work. 3 pages every day, without putting down the pen-- doodling in the margin if I am stuck-- Hoping to graduate to 4 pages at the end of the month. Maybe the inner doomsayer will get hoarse! I love the phrase inner doomsayer. There is something ridiculous about it, which makes it easier to laugh at… at least from a distance. I wouldn’t try to stop the doomsayers in Times Square from doing their thing, so why try to soothe the one in my head? Short writing sessions are working for me right now for a (scary for me) first draft of a long work. 3 pages every day, without putting down the pen– doodling in the margin if I am stuck– Hoping to graduate to 4 pages at the end of the month. Maybe the inner doomsayer will get hoarse!

]]> By: Janet Bailey http://www.mindfultimemanagement.com/2009/09/calling-out-the-inner-doomsayer/comment-page-1/#comment-192 Janet Bailey Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:23 +0000 http://www.mindfultimemanagement.com/?p=185#comment-192 @Michelle - So true! @Michelle – So true!

]]> By: Michelle Russell http://www.mindfultimemanagement.com/2009/09/calling-out-the-inner-doomsayer/comment-page-1/#comment-190 Michelle Russell Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:42:45 +0000 http://www.mindfultimemanagement.com/?p=185#comment-190 Janet, I think that's a really powerful insight. If you *know* that the Doomsayer will never be happy, you can stop wasting your energy by not even *trying* to please her. It's so often the simple patterns that are the hard ones to shift, aren't they? Janet, I think that’s a really powerful insight. If you *know* that the Doomsayer will never be happy, you can stop wasting your energy by not even *trying* to please her.

It’s so often the simple patterns that are the hard ones to shift, aren’t they?

]]> By: Janet Bailey http://www.mindfultimemanagement.com/2009/09/calling-out-the-inner-doomsayer/comment-page-1/#comment-189 Janet Bailey Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:04:27 +0000 http://www.mindfultimemanagement.com/?p=185#comment-189 @Sharon - This also sounds like a good argument for short work sessions. Throw something out there, leave it, come back later. @Sharon – This also sounds like a good argument for short work sessions. Throw something out there, leave it, come back later.

]]> By: Sharon Anderson http://www.mindfultimemanagement.com/2009/09/calling-out-the-inner-doomsayer/comment-page-1/#comment-188 Sharon Anderson Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:17:33 +0000 http://www.mindfultimemanagement.com/?p=185#comment-188 Oh, I know the voice of the inner doomsayer (mine is called a troll). My sneaky work-around is to walk away from the writing after a session. As I leave, convinced that what I've done is no good at all, I give myself the option of working on it more at a later point in time. A day, or better, a weekend passes, and when I return to reread the work, I am almost always pleasantly surprised that I like what I wrote! It's way better than what the troll was telling me about it. Oh, I know the voice of the inner doomsayer (mine is called a troll). My sneaky work-around is to walk away from the writing after a session. As I leave, convinced that what I’ve done is no good at all, I give myself the option of working on it more at a later point in time. A day, or better, a weekend passes, and when I return to reread the work, I am almost always pleasantly surprised that I like what I wrote! It’s way better than what the troll was telling me about it.

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