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Are Your Emotions Telling You the Truth? · The Daily Writer

• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Rider Podcast, where we bring you tips and inspiration each day to help you build habits for writing success.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: For more resources, including your free Daily Rider Starter Kit, visit DailyWriterLife.com.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: We humans are emotional creatures.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: We like to believe that we do things based on reason and logic, yet if most of us are honest and we stop and examine our actions, we'll see that they're mostly driven by emotions.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: Now, it's especially true when it comes to bad behavior.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: Eating unhealthy food or procrastinating when you know you should be working, or avoiding hard conversations or watching viral cat videos for hours on end, not that I know anything about that personally, or yelling at your kids when they don't deserve it.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: It's all driven by emotion and not logic.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: And the truth is that we do the same thing with our writing.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: We avoid working on that hard chapter because it requires a lot of concentration, or we don't support our friend's new book because we're secretly jealous.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: Or we don't do that extra round of edits because we're impatient.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: Or we don't publish that book that's been sitting on our computer for a year or five years or 20 years because we're afraid of what other people are going to think.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: So think about the emotions driving the behavior that's keeping you from your writing goals.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: Most of the time they're telling you lies like you're not worthy, you'll never succeed, or it's gonna just fail anyway.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: And that's just fear talking.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: Fear raises its ugly head anytime you're taking a risk or trying something new.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: Fear gets its kicks by telling you lies.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: So don't listen to fear.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: Don't listen to the lies.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_00: Instead, listen to that still small voice encouraging you to keep going.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_00: Here's today's challenge.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: What emotions are you feeling right now?
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: And are they telling you the truth about yourself?
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_00: Such as you're worthy, you're gifted, you're talented, and you deserve to have your words out there for people to read them.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: If so, follow that voice because that's the one telling you the truth.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening, and I'll see you tomorrow.