Self Improvement The Ultimate Quest

If someone visits your website, the content on your website should say a lot about who you are, what you are selling and what you have to contribute to the prospect. A good article on your website can provide more information about your expertise and benefits that you can provide to the visitor.

Having good content on your website is a way for buyers to find you. People go to the search engines to look for information that they need and when your site comes up in the search engines, your link will be clicked and the person will end up at your website. So you want to make sure that you provide the buyer with exactly what they need.

Good content can also be used to lead people to your website from other websites. This increases traffic. How do you get that done, you may ask? Well, you can have others write the articles for you and submit them to the article submission websites. This is called outsourcing. Outsourcing your articles is a good way to free up your time and at the same time have someone else do the bulk of the work for you as you reap the benefits.

Using a ghostwriter is an easy and effective way to get your articles ranked high in the search engines. A ghostwriter will use keywords or keyword phrases in the article to have it picked up by the search engines and when someone searches using those keywords and keyword phrases, they fill find your article with a link to your website.

You can find expert writers who will charge you only a small fee to write your articles and possibly submit them to the article submission websites for more exposure. These writers can help you to promote your website and get a good spot in the search engines.

Writers will also write content for your website and this will let visitors see that you have great content. This will impress them to want to come back for more interesting articles. This will also create additional traffic for you.

Different writers have different writing styles. However, for the most part, writers can write articles on pretty much any topic as long as they have great research skills. There are many writers who charge top dollars and some who will work for a small fee. It depends on what they are writing about, how much research is involved and what the client’s budget is.

You can outsource your work to individuals who write from home full time. These are experienced individuals who offer their writing services as a business. So to the writer, this is a business where they are providing their services to you. Some of them work only as writers, so paying your writers well is a guarantee that they will work effortlessly to please you and produce a great article or articles.

You can search for websites that have great writers by going to writer’s forums, or just going to the search engines and doing a search. Use words or phrases, like, “content writer,” or “article writer.” You should be able to find a writer that you can negotiate and work with.

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There are few things that strike fear in the heart of creative people more than finishing. Clients come to me and cite their biggest block is actually completing something. It makes sense. Finishing a project is like giving birth – the closer you get to the due date, the more things become restricted, the more you have to squeeze into the narrow confines of the birth canal to complete. You have to say no to distractions. You face the reality of your brilliant ideas, and it’s not always a pretty picture. Restrictions are much less sexy than the excitement of possibility at the beginning of the creative cycle. And creative types like the notion of lots of freedom and space to create and play. So it’s no wonder that creative people are known to harbor a closet full of abandoned projects.

Yet when we cycle through project after project and never bring any of them to completion, we rob ourselves of some very vital and powerful juju. Here are some of the gems that await you in the completion phase of any personal, professional or creative project.

You will gain confidence in your ability to stay with something. Staying with something, even when it is difficult, gives us extra karmic muscle. When we stay, we get to feel and experience our inner power. This confidence will extend to other areas of your life and will enhance all that you do.

Trust comes with the confidence of completing. As you lean into the final phase of creating, your trust in yourself builds. You learn to believe yourself when you say you are going to do something. With this trust comes self-respect and self-love.

You will glean enormous learning about your craft. What makes a completed piece is very different than what makes a fresh idea compelling. By completing, you delve into the very heart of what makes a piece good. And you want to be good at what you do, don’t you?

And, while you are there, in the heart of your craft, you will discover something else: yourself. The themes and questions of your life will emerge in the process. What you value and hold close to your heart will come forth in your work. I always knew that writing was an act of self-discovery, but it wasn’t until I was in the final laps of finishing my novel that I saw how true that platitude was.

These are some of the benefits that I have reaped from finishing. What might you get from completing? Ask yourself this question – What will be different for me when I finish ________? The answer might reveal a motivation and a reason for staying stuck. Don’t deny yourself the pleasures and benefits of completing. You and your great ideas deserve the joy and satisfaction that comes from crossing the finish line.

This article is excerpted from Cynthia’s e-book, Cross the Finish Line! Five Steps to Leap Over the Hurdles to Completion. Pick your copy up today and become a serial finisher.

Speaker, author and coach Cynthia Morris of Original Impulse helps writers and visionaries make their brilliant ideas a reality. Author of Create Your Writer?s Life and Cross the Finish Line! Five Steps to Leap Over the Hurdles to Completion, Cynthia and her clients have finished books, blogs, web sites, art pieces and more. Cynthia coaches from Europe. Follow her journey on her blog at Journey Juju.

There are times when life takes over and we’re forced to put our creative projects on the shelf. Visitors, illness, big life moves and other disruptions can lead to frustration on the creative front. Artists of all media and writers deal with this challenge of life disrupting our creative work.

I’ve worked with many clients on this. The biggest thing is to not beat yourself up or spend too much energy on being frustrated or angry. A better practice is to develop ways to keep a thread alive that connects you to your creativity. Here are a number of ‘threads’ that can keep your project alive when you can’t be as present with it as you want.

• Spend a few minutes with your project, just looking at it, reading it, being with it.

• Read relevant materials to stay inspired, but watch for ‘surfing’, where your attention wanders away from your focus. If you surf or read for longer than ten minutes, chances are you could be applying that time to your writing.

• Develop a new lens or antenna through which you see the world. Your project is the lens, and ideas and solutions will pop up when you keep your eyes open and filter life through your project. For instance, I was looking for ways to tighten up the drama and action in my novel. While watching the TV show LOST, I noticed that they ended every segment with a dramatic ‘bang.’ I went to each chapter’s end and trimmed away the last few sentences which were not adding to the drama of the book. With the lens of tightening up my writing, I was open to LOST as a teacher of good writing.

• Schedule time in your calendar to work on your project so you know when you will get to it. Just knowing you have a place for it can help ease anxiety over not being in your creative zone.

• Lean into your sense of trust in your own creative process. Remember times when you lost the connection and picked it back up. Use those memories to assure you that you will get back to your project this time.

• Make lists of things you are pondering or working on in your project. The bits and pieces that add up to the whole will help you stay connected and sort through issues you’re working on.

• Do a brief free write, sketch or mind map about your work. Sometimes stepping back and getting the big picture will help you connect to the project in new and useful ways.

• Connect with things that inspire you to create. Conversations with other artists, both in your medium and not, almost always spark your creativity.

Balancing life and art making takes effort for most of us. But don’t make yourself a victim of your circumstances. Instead, use these threads and develop your own ways of staying connected. Make space for the creative work you crave. If you find yourself avoiding or shirking your creative practice, that’s another story. Avoiding art making is more often due to fears rather than lack of time or life’s disruptions. You know the difference for yourself. Get clear on whether life is in your way or you are in your way. And then choose to do the art you love!

My favorite bumper sticker says Don’t Postpone Joy. I say Don’t Postpone Creativity. Keep the thread alive in whatever way you can.

Cynthia Morris of Original Impulse helps writers and visionaries make their brilliant ideas a reality. Author of Create Your Writer?s Life, Go For It! Leading Tours for Fun and Profit, and Cross the Finish Line! Five Steps to Leap Over the Hurdles to Completion, Cynthia coaches from Europe. Follow her adventures at JourneyJuju.com