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The #1 Quality of Successful Writers · The Daily Writer

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  SPEAKER_00: Hey my friend, thanks for joining me for today's episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've got a question for you, and it's a very important one, and it's this How do you know if you're a successful writer?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, if you ask 10 different writers, you'll probably get 10 different answers.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's my take on that question.
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  SPEAKER_00: I believe the number one quality of successful writers is authorship.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, when I use this term authorship, I'm not just talking about writing books.
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  SPEAKER_00: Authors don't just write books.
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  SPEAKER_00: Authors, at their core, they create, they take initiative, they make decisions, they have personal agency.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when you act with authorship, you're taking ownership of your writing, your career, and ultimately you're taking ownership of your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now I get it, a lot of writers measure their success by things like book deals and sales numbers, the number of clients they've written books for, having bestseller status, and lots of other impressive sounding credentials.
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  SPEAKER_00: And all those things can be well and good, of course, but the driving force behind any meaningful accomplishment as a writer is that you took action and you made something happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: It really comes down to this question, and this question is really another way of framing this idea of what authorship actually is.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's this are you writing your own story or are you letting other people write it for you?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I want to repeat that because it's really important.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you writing your own story or are you letting other people write it for you?
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, you don't have to passively accept whatever life happens to throw at you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can immediately change your state of mind by understanding that you can do something right now in this instant to be more successful and to start working toward your goals.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just think quickly for a moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Think about one thing that you've been putting off lately.
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  SPEAKER_00: It might be sending that email that you've been putting off.
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  SPEAKER_00: It might be finishing that book chapter, maybe it's posting on social media, or maybe it's something as simple as texting that friend to set up that coffee meeting that you promised that you would do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, whatever it is, just do it today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't wait.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't put it off till tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just take action, take initiative, and be the author of your own story.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the most meaningful thing you can do to build your success is to stop being a passive observer of your own life and start acting like the author of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it for today.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll see you next time.