A Message from Kelly

Welcome to The Copywriting Connection! This week we are focusing on expressing your personal power and why that is important to your success. I am a big believer and participant in personal development. If you aren't learning and growing you aren't living. Discovering and unleashing your power and your true self is what makes you YOU. Expressing that in your business is a natural way to promote your copywriting business and be true to yourself. This week's feature article takes a look at where many of us get stuck when expressing our personal power and some things we can do to unstick ourselves.

My husband, Troy, turned 40 Friday. He's older than I am, but I feeeeel his turning 40 with him. I have a personal goal of achieving millionaire status by the time I'm 40. Less than 2 years away (waaaaay less truthfully), I'm looking at my power (hence the article this week) and what changes I need to make to achieve that commitment. Like most of you I assume, I am examining the results I am achieving and making changes (internal as well as external) to get the results I desire.

Happy Copywriting!

Kelly

Expressing Your Power

What is going to make the difference between creating success and not creating success? Fully expressing your power.

I believe this is true no matter what your desires; to become a successful and profitable copywriter, to become a millionaire, to create passive income streams so you can travel the world, to be a great parent and raise joyful children. 

Your thoughts tend to be the thing that hold most people back, and are also the one thing that can shoot you forward to phenomenal success in record time. Your thoughts can also bury you alive. You need to be aware of them and control them.

Unleashing your power

Many aspiring copywriters feel stuck somewhere between their current existence and their dream of freedom and success as a freelance copywriter. These copywriters know that they are capable of achieving so much more, but are stuck where they're at, either unsure where to go next or unclear how to move forward, paralyzed with fear and indecision.

When you dream, you see yourself becoming and being the phenomenal success you know you are capable of. With a clear vision, focused purpose, and deep gratitude you can accomplish anything you set your mind to. Controlling your mind is the key.

Your thoughts allow you to fully express your own power. You can do this by:

1. Examining your thoughts and beliefs. Think about where these beliefs manifested. Where do they come from – your parents? The media? Interpretations of past experiences?
2. Taking charge of your thoughts and mind through meditation. Use discipline and eliminate noise and unsupportive beliefs and stories, and learn and integrate new behaviors and beliefs into your daily routine.
3. Creating balance and clearing clutter in your life.

Visionary and psychologist William James said, "Believe and your belief will create fact." Remember this as your unconscious mind relives old stories and repeatedly undermines your dreams with negative thoughts.

Take control of your thoughts and change your behaviors so that your true power can express itself. Expressing YOUR unique self is how your will achieve your dreams and create the life you envision.

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Copywriters Challenge

We challenge you to be honest with yourself. ARE you fully expressing your power? You know this by looking at the results you achieve.

Word of the Week

This week's word of the week is pablum [pab-luhm]. Pablum means trite, insipid, naive, or simplistic ideas or writings; intellectual pap. When used with capitalization as a trademark, it is a brand of soft, bland cereal for infants.

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