The mental note that helped me create when I didn’t want to

It’s already that time again.

I promised I’d be consistent...

But not enough time has passed for me to feel ready for the next round.

It feels too soon.

I’m not ready.

Not in the mood.

Feel like escaping.

It’s uncomfortable.

It’s like frustration lives in my lower belly.

But then I take a moment to scroll through some of the files in my mental cabinet:

One reads: ‘Stuff that helps me when it gets hard.’

I find an old mental note.

‘The easiest way to get a lot done is to focus on getting a tiny amount done.’

Yeah, this feels good. Like a swig of wine after a long hike in the cold.

Most of my overwhelm has nothing to do with work.

Because all I’m ever doing is writing one sentence at a time.

It’s not much. But the IDEA of what I have to do feels like a lot.

And an IDEA isn’t the real thing.

So I just focus on the tiny.

The next sentence.

Now everything seems relaxed and possible.

Because it is.

If you’d like to put this philosophy of simple, tiny creation to good use, you might like my course: Online Writing Alchemy.

This course is a collection of my best lessons on how to write online articles and posts in a way that best grows your audience.

When you have an audience, you have a valuable community that you support and that supports you. This community can help you financially when you share a product (as I am now doing with you), and this gives you freedom.

The course is expensive. And you can just use ChatGPT to provide ideas on how to write better.

But this course comes from 15 years of screwing up and trialling tens of thousands of ideas and seeing what works better than the rest. That’s valuable.

What’s that worth?

Learn more about that here.

Alex