Chapter 6Secret #6:RedirectYour Attention

With pen in hand or computer powered up, you begin a free-writing road trip about something important to you. Perhaps you’re thinking about how to announce a fee increase, or you’re wondering how best to approach your boss to ask for higher-visibility projects. Whatever the situation, you’re on the freewriting bus, motoring along, when suddenly you hit the brakes. The road ahead is washed out, and you don’t know how to proceed.

Quickly, you consult your checklist of freewriting rules: Try easy, check. Writing fast and continuously, check. Inoffensive kitchen timer counting down ten-minute intervals, check. Now you’ve run out of ideas. You’ve reached the end of your thoughts, or so you believe.

While you ...

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