Dealing with guilt can be a challenging journey, yet it's an essential part of personal growth and emotional health. Discover strategies to navigate this complex emotion, learn from it, and ultimately, transform it into a powerful catalyst for positive change.
How to Deal With Guilt
Make sure your writing goals are reasonable
- Base them on analysis rather than hope or guesswork
- Don’t over-promise
- Track how long it takes you to write and build in plenty of extra time for researching and editing
- Appreciate the mistakes you make
Understand the difference between “busy-ness” and being truly productive
Productivity means doing what you really need to do to reach your goals
- Set up the conditions under which creativity can thrive
- Make changes, instead of wallowing in guilt
- Stop calling yourself a bad person or a bad writer
- Change and learning occur when you recognize you’ve made a mistake and develop a strategy for correcting the problem
Don’t accept the standards and expectations of other people
You are you. This makes you different from everyone else around you.
- Decide how much time you’re able to spend researching, writing or editing and start smaller than that
- Look for the emotions beneath the guilt
- Stop magnifying your guilt
Stop Comparing Yourself to Others
We’re all different and have our own strengths and weaknesses
- Focus on competing against the old you instead
- Try to do a 500-word article in 60 minutes
- That’s the only type of comparison that’s meaningful and useful to you
