Admit it. You think about it all the time.

The moment you open your eyes, while taking a shower, before going to bed, and even in the middle of the night when you unwillingly get up to use the bathroom. You think about it with so much joy that you can’t help but smile every time.

Your article idea.

Your brilliant idea that won’t leave your mind because you know it would make a huge impact. In fact, you are certain that it will change the lives of many people in your community.

But you just can’t find the time to write it now, even though deep down you know that the burning desire to write and create something of your own will never go away.

Then why do you keep procrastinating? 

Each week you find yourself back to square one, passionate to start, but you give priority to a million other things that you need to take care of first, before you can sit and start writing.

OK, I know the feeling. I’ve been there so many times.

I cowered in fear because I thought that nobody was ever going to read what I wrote.

And you know why?

Because I didn’t take my writing seriously. I thought of writing as a hobby. Something that I did occasionally but not serious work that could actually make me money.

Does this sound like you? 

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