There are certain habits, which super successful people have that enable them to stay at the top of their game. These same habits you as a writer can also nurture and develop. In this article, we take a look at 5 such habits.

1. The ability to turn negative into positive

As a writer, your path will be challenging. Enjoying doing what you’re doing is a great thing. However, at some point you need to make it pay. Paid writing is a difficult field to break into. There will be times when you won’t land clients. Your stories may get rejected by editors. In such instances, your natural reaction may be to take the experience really personally and get hurt, or depressed even. Instead, turn a negative into a positive. As an example, the fact you didn’t win the business of a particular client, means you’re one step nearer to closing a deal with a client who will be lucky to work with you, and for whom you’ll produce great work.

By creating a habit of turning a mental difficulty into a positive experience and continuing to do this again and again, your mind will remain clearer, and you’ll take responsibility for your day-to-day happiness and resourcefulness.

2. Dedicated to lifelong learning

Want to be an excellent writer as opposed to an average one? If so, make time for learning whenever you can, so you increase your knowledge. The saying knowledge is power really does run true. People who operate at peak levels are constant learners. If there’s something they don’t understand, they read, take a class and talk to others who’ve done what they want to. By learning new skills, you increase your value as a writer and ultimately as a human being. By treating learning as a journey that continues and never ends, you’re adopting an approach, which the masses simply do not, and hence you’ll stand out right away.

3. Have a vision

Having a vision both on paper and in the imagination of your mind of what success for you as a writer means, and how your life will be when you’ve achieved your vision, will have a powerful effect on your ability to reach out for what you want. People who have become masters of their respective crafts are passionate and committed visionaries of their own lives. And they don’t just imagine one day and leave it at that. They go back to their vision in the screens of their minds regularly – monthly, weekly and some even often as daily. How can you create a vision for the writer you want to be? How can you keep on returning to your vision?

4. Use personal resources wisely

High achievers are experts at using their time and energy wisely. They know how to prioritise tasks and only take on activities when they know there is a real possibility of an outcome being achieved from doing so. Otherwise, it is a waste of time and energy, which could have been used on another more productive activity that would have resulted in getting closer to a desired goal. As a writer, protect your energy and time like a parent might look after a child. Rather than burning out trying to do a million and one activities, focus on doing just the one activity that can really make a difference and do it well, before moving onto something else.

5. Being well-prepared

By not wasting your energy, super successful people have buckets load of it when the time comes to preparing for something important, be it a business meeting with colleagues, or a conference call with a potential client. A top achiever doesn’t hesitate to spend as long as is needed on preparation because he or she realizes that it is one of the steps to success. By being prepared as a writer, your confidence will grow. This could involve doing proper research (both desk-based and face-to-face) before writing a paper, or it could involve researching a new client and understanding his/her copywriting needs thoroughly as much as possible, prior to actually pitching your services to the business.

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[author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://writingtipsoasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/hv1.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Hiten Vyas is the Founder and Managing Editor of eBooks India. He is also a prolific eBook writer with over 25 titles to his name.[/author_info] [/author]