You are what you do, how you do it, and how you feel about it

I love Seth Godin’s work, because he sees what others don’t.

In Seth’s Blog: What are you good at? he says:

“Process, on the other hand, refers to the emotional intelligence skills you have about managing projects, visualizing success, persuading other people of your point of view, dealing with multiple priorities, etc. This stuff is insanely valuable and hard to learn. Unfortunately, it’s usually overlooked by headhunters and HR folks, partly because it’s hard to accredit or check off in a database.”

Think about your own writing processes. They develop from what you do. They’re how you do what you do, and how you feel about it. Once you know how to write and sell, you refine your processes, so that they work even better, and you become more successful. As Seth says, processes are based on emotion.

If you’re not aware of the emotional factor, it can trip you up: you get bothered by rejection for example, and fail to see that the problem isn’t the rejection (everyone gets rejected), but your attitude to it. If you decided that since everyone gets rejected, and it’s part of writing, it’s silly to be upset. You may as well treat it as what it is — feedback — and move on.

A great freelance writing career involves developing lots of processes.

What processes have you developed?