What is it with these guys:<\/p>\n
Seriously Ben, help me out here [need your expertise and experience]<\/strong><\/p>\n
I am the type of writer who wants to write but always writes in my head<\/strong><\/p>\n
what can you advice me to do to be able to write everyday, I admit I am lazy on that part but a part of me is willing to show up and do the damn work (I won’t say that I am fully willing because my actions does not show it)<\/strong><\/p>\n
What did you do to be able to write consistently without stopping. I need that too<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Here’s an idea:<\/p>\n
Take out the tampon and just write.<\/strong><\/p>\n
Open text doc and type one word at a time, one sentence at a time, one paragraph at a time, one page at a time, one money making email\/ad\/social media post\/article\/book\/eBook\/course\/blog post\/article\/newsletter issue\/fiction story, whatever it is… at a time.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re doing audio or video content, same thing:<\/p>\n
Start recording one word, one idea, and one, module, episode at a time.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the whole \u201csecret.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the best winemaker in my state once told me, \u201cthe secret is there ARE no secrets.\u201d<\/p>\n
Just sac up and do the work.<\/p>\n
People will waste all kinds of their finite creative, mental, emotional, and physical energy doing everything and anything BUT the work. Reminds me of a video gym bros were mocking on Twitter showing a bunch of middle aged women strapped to a bungie cord, running & floating to and fro, gliding through the air across the room – \u201cweeee!\u201d<\/p>\n
The most popular comment was: \u201clooks fun!\u201d<\/p>\n
Yes, it probably is fun.<\/p>\n
But it won’t do jack vs doing the work of strength training and being in a caloric deficit.<\/p>\n
Writing and content creation can be and is often fun if you know what you\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n
But if it always needs to be fun, and never a challenge, that ain\u2019t sustainable.<\/p>\n
Sometimes creating content is so much fun I get lost in it, and hours go by, and dozens of pages, or hours of recording happen without even looking at the clock. Other times, it\u2019s a slog, and a grind, and a maddening struggle trying to figure out what to say, how to say it, or the right format to say it in.<\/p>\n
But the best stuff, the most profitable stuff, most often comes from that slog.<\/p>\n
Took me years of writing to figure that part out. Including years of failing, and long stretches of grinding and battling self doubt, thinking everything I wrote was crap, and in one case even on the brink of just quitting altogether about twenty years ago this very month.<\/p>\n
It was only a brief consideration though.<\/p>\n
The next day I got up and… kept writing.<\/p>\n
In that case, I created some content (writing). And I put it out there like I had thousands of times before. And you know what happened? That piece of content I wrote got on the radar of someone in the business who I did a deal with. And that ONE deal was the biggest (financially) I\u2019d done to that point, and was a “tentacle” that latched onto many more deals ever since and to this very day.<\/p>\n
All as a result of just doing the work and figuring things out.<\/p>\n
So that’s that.<\/p>\n
To learn more about the paid Email Players newsletter go here:<\/p>\n