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The Journalist Consul Conundrum

Garth Beyer

SamanthaPower

The short story of journalist diplomat, Samantha Power, is that she once (I am sure, still does) write about genocide and foreign policy. Then Power worked with the Obama administration and now is a UN Ambassador implementing change that she wrote was vital for society in her earlier works as a journalist.

Featured in an article by Jason Zengerle, he writes that,

“It’s almost as if her journalism and her advocacy were working against her. From the outside it was great, but from the inside she had to prove that she was a team player and could be trusted not to put her own template on everything.”

I couldn’t help but completely understand the predicament and responsibility that Power has. Recently I applied to an Officer Protocol position for the National Security Agency. After a few weeks, I have yet to hear anything. Naturally, I wondered why.

The simple answer: I blog.

An agency as large as the NSA (and not to mention the recent whistle blowing news surrounding the agency) wants someone invisible, someone who can follow orders, and someone who understands how the system works.

While I can connect with the last requirement, I’m a bit too… visible and opinionated to be what they are looking for. After all, I am an Op-Ed writer. Conclusively, I have to agree with Zengerle’s assumption that it is extremely difficult to be a journalist diplomat; the responsibilities, connections, habits, and overall lifestyle are completely different.

The article nearly ends by noting, “The truth is, the Power who wrote A Problem From Hell is not—and can’t be—the same Power now responsible for solving that problem.”

As a writer though, all I hope is that Power is still writing, even if it’s not seen for another 20 years.

 

Stay Positive & Sometimes It’s Better To Find Writing After The Fact

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Hiring A Freelance Writer?

Garth Beyer

I’m your guy, resulting in direct success for your blog/businesses. After reading posts that I have made, you know that the ideas, the motivation, and the creativity are there.

What you may not know is that I also Ghostwrite for other private employers with topics including, jobs, education, all corners of business, marketing, the way ideas spread, improvements, budgets, career changes, life & work decisions, public relations, personal stories, and anything else in relation to these topics. Additionally, I do interviews and reports for business’s and other individuals which I would be happy to do for you.

But, it doesn’t end there. I can write about anything. I will do the extensive necessary research to become a professional on the specific topic choice. My ability to adapt and overcome with success can not be competed with. You will realize that my writing breaks boundaries and mechanical preferences in order to exceed formal expectations which results in value so rich its richness becomes tangible. (Yes, by that I mean profitable.)

You can always reach me at thegarthbox@gmail.com

You Really Don’t Want To Do What You Love

Garth Beyer

I’m getting a couple of articles published on Under30CEO. Meanwhile I am beginning to write for the Clarion (school newspaper). Also, I attended the PRSSA kick off event tonight and will be going to the Madison chapter of Society of Professional Journalists next week. This is the life of a person going into PR. I want to schedule the meetings with those who lead these organizations and others, I want to be a critical part to the clubs and organizations progress, and I want to connect with everyone I can so that I can learn everything they know.

Secretly though, I don’t want to. I was nervous about submitting the articles to Under30CEO, it took me over a week to convince myself to email the chief-in-editor for the Clarion about a position, I thought I missed the PRSSA event and simply shrugged with a tad of self-dissapointment, and I’m still telling myself that I’m going to the SPJ meeting to connect with people; I don’t need to be connected with someone before I go. To be straightforward, part of me didn’t want to do any of the things that I love doing!

We all want to do what we love, our passion, what makes us most happy to be doing. Yet, even those things make us put on our brakes, question our reasoning, evaluate the risk, let nervousness prevent us from action, and remain passive while the lizard brain takes control. Doing what you love is hard work and though you may want to do it, you will always also not want to do it.

My motto is that you’ll never get anywhere if you don’t do at least one thing a day that you don’t want to do.

Remember, you may not love what you do – and that’s okay, it’s not the point – the point is to love having done what you did more than anything in the world. Eventually, you’ll grow to love doing the things you both do and don’t want to do. It’s about creating habit. Keep doing what you don’t want to do and you’ll end up loving every minute of it.

 

Stay Positive & Commit To Never Skip A Day

Garth E. Beyer

Personally, at the end of the day I will be happy no matter what as long as I did something I didn’t want to do because I know I’ll have made progress whether it appears right away or not.

I’m A Writer

Garth Beyer

Oh heavens above does this feel good. I’ve been writing or researching for my writings for nearly 10 hours now. It’s three hours from midnight and I am still going. This feeling of being what I have always wanted to be excites my emotions and makes me want to assist others in feeling the same. You ask what it takes, I say it takes time (clearly) and effort (even more clearly). You ask how? Well that is what I want to work with you on. Email me: thegarthbox@gmail.com

 

A Writer Needs To Be Wrong

Garth Beyer

I want to be wrong.

 

So often writers and people in general second guess everything, especially what they write. They then cross it out, erase it, work around it or completely rewrite it. After you do this for so long, you eventually just handle the process in your head without realizing it. You begin to think of every word, sentence, and part of grammar before you write it.

–R.I.P Paragraph that I wrote and erased–

Now it may be safe, but it’s not healthy for a writer to do so. It disconnects you from a flow of writing which is much more important than the flow of thinking. – In which case that would make you a philosopher, not a writer –

Moreover, you would surely agree that writers learn from their mistakes and though they may still make them in their minds, they are not acknowledging them, learning from them or are able to look back at them and see where the mind strayed off track.

The ability to not only learn from mistakes, but actually play with them, develop with them and write with them allows the writer to explore purity. I say purity because everything that you have ignored, every angle you avoided writing from, every idea that you felt went off the story line has never been touched or tampered with and so it remains pure.

After you write for some time, you will learn that what most people want to read is pure writing and to find pure writing, you have to do the manual labor of writing on ideas that you would normally and subconsciously cross out or erase.

I always say, if hair on your chest makes you a man, scribbles and crossed out words makes you a writer.

 

Stay Positive & Purity In Writing Is Unlimited

Garth E. Beyer

Paid To Think

Garth Beyer

You know why it’s good to get paid for your thoughts, ideas and actions? Because you have a million a day. Even if you get paid 1 cent per thought, you would still make more than if you got paid $500 an hour for an 8 hour work day.

No wonder why bloggers, writers, artists and creative minds make so much.

Food for thought.

 

Stay Positive & More Thoughts, More Money, More Food (For Thought)

Garth E. Beyer