What is it about locked doors that are so tantalizing to people? We always want what we can’t have, and for some reason, some people…when a door is closed or locked to them, instead of looking for an alternate door, sit and bang their head on the locked door. Like it’s just going to magically open or something.

It’s not going to magically open.

So what do you do when a door is locked or closed and it’s just not budging? Well number one, you don’t sit and bitch and whine about it and talk about how the world is unfair and no one appreciates your genius. Not only is this completely unproductive, but it sets up a type of negativity that will quickly be followed by levels of self doubt so great you might stop trying altogether.

I truly believe that doors don’t typically open for constantly negative and pessimistic people. In large part because such people believe they are victims and that the odds are stacked against them. When you believe yourself to be a victim the world treats you as one. No one goes out of their way to respect someone who doesn’t first respect themselves.

In the personal path I’ve chosen for my writing, there will initially be many closed doors. I know this going in. But there are also open doors. The doors that are open and receptive are where it makes the most sense to focus the most of one’s initial efforts. After all, you are one person, you can’t do everything at once anyway. Best to prioritize. Then a little at a time as you make contacts, and prove yourself, the doors that were originally closed, start to crack open a bit.

It’s my view, that doors open when one has earned it. Period. There are no short cuts no matter what road you’re on. When I write something worth being noticed for and get it into enough hands to get peeps talking, then doors will start to slide open. But until and unless I write something worthy of that kind of attention, I’m not going to expect it. And I’m sure as hell not going to bruise my head by banging it against locked doors. I need to stay cute, after all.