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  • Hello there, it's Marie Forleo again with another Q & A Tuesday!

  • Q: Alright, so today we have a very exciting question. This is from Christina, Christina

  • writes:

  • "I'm a preschool teacher who has written children's books that encourage love and respect for

  • self and others." Very nice job, Christina! "My question, how can I go about projecting

  • myself as a writer first and a teacher second? What business steps can I take to make this

  • transformation? Thank you for all you do, Christina."

  • A: Alright so, Christina we've got some good answers for you today. There's actually three

  • very simple, very effective things that you can do right now to make that transformation

  • and make it happen fast! The first one is speak it. So words have tremendous power,

  • all you got to do the next time you find yourself at a cocktail party, just say you're a writer

  • first. So anytime you introduce yourself, talk about writing; talk about your books.

  • Talk about everything else before you start saying you're a teacher and that's going to

  • make a huge difference.

  • So what we like to say is justdoit. Juss doeht. Juzdooet, Christina. Number two! Number two,

  • you want to write it. So all language that goes out into the world, think about this,

  • what is your email signature say? What does your business card say? What about any social

  • media profiles? The very first thing that you should have is ding, ding, ding... writer.

  • So if you don't have writer as the first thing listed on all of your written paraphernalia,

  • go and make that change right now! I'll wait.

  • Do it? Didja jussdooit? Okay, good! Number three and this is the most important one of

  • all is be it! You have to write as much as you can. So if you don't have a blog, I would

  • highly suggest you start blogging. Perhaps journaling will be more your thing but just

  • really be the writer that you actually are and it becomes pretty simple if you're doing

  • something habitually.

  • You're writing everyday. You're putting out blog posts. You're publishing more books.

  • Naturally, it's going to be the first thing that pops out of your mouth. So those are

  • three easy steps to make that transformation and I want you to tell us how it goes.

  • So that was the A to today's Q. Thank you so much for watching! If you like it, like

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Hello there, it's Marie Forleo again with another Q & A Tuesday!

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