Strategy Number Four: Motivation Hacks In the past few weeks we have looked at your mindset, the trick of just starting and adjusting your environment to induce you to sit down to write. Ultimately, there comes a point where you make a decision to write…or not. Before you even reach that decision point, though, there […]
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Strategy Number Three: Environment. How did you go with just starting? In part four of our series on defeating resistance, this week I’m looking at the environment where you write. Sometimes, you have no control over the physical environment in which you write. The local coffee shop is going to be noisy, although there
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Strategy Number Two: Just Start. Last week we looked at some of the mental blocks that help resistance get a foothold in your brain. When resistance is at its most active, though, is the few moments before you sit down and start writing, to about twenty minutes after you have “started” (if you actually
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Strategy Number One: Mindset Today we’re looking at the first strategy of five approaches to defeating resistance and getting more written. Last week [here] I explained why you need these five strategies. All of us do. Resistance is built into the human psyche. How you approach resistance, deal with it, and how you think
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What is resistance? Are you a victim of it? Probably! The term “Resistance” was first coined by Steven Pressfield in his book, The War of Art. To Pressfield, Resistance is an external entity against whom artists must wage war to win at the game of writing. For him, Resistance always has a capital “R”. As
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Once you have been writing for a while, the way you write becomes calcified. This is usually a good thing, because everything gets a little bit easier, you grow comfortable dealing with a vast range of interlocking skills, and you can complete everything just a little faster. When you’ve been writing for a long while,
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(Tip: Start taking note of how often you tell yourself you’ll get to it tomorrow).
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Discipline tends to get a bad rap these days. In productivity circles, it is equated to white-knuckling your way through tasks with iron-jawed determination, which will naturally and absolutely end in failure. In diet circles, discipline is the same as holding your teeth together, sitting on your hands and mutely shaking your head “no” when
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