Battling Resistance Part Two

byownonlboss

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Updated 7 years ago

Resistance stops us from progressing or reaching our goals. In this series we battle resistance in different ways.

Work (Over)Load

Okay so you want to write this post for your site and there are many others things you got to do with your site as well. Perhaps fix some old posts, link some others, create a video, find an image, create a review, do some research. Oh goodness it is all sounding like so much work. With all the workload in your mind, you just got into this annoying writers block. Perhaps you have not a clue what to write about at all, or you find no inspiration to write.

What Do You Do?

Well you would probably feel like doing something else, find some distraction. Perhaps getting some positive distraction will help your creativity. From bad to worse...nothing gets produced.

There is hope. We often feel like we have to do it all on the same time. Or when there is something important to do, we need to do a lot of it. We feel like we should spend hours on researching and write blogs day in day out. We feel that we should be writing many different blogs for that other site. We feel we should be active on WA and help all our referrals or friends.

The feeling that you need to do that much, can sabotage your best efforts or wishes very quickly. We all might get very enthusiastic at this new affiliate marketing thing we are learning about and the website we are working on that we get over-ambitious.

Don't Believe Me? Here's an example!

So I started with this Wealthy Affiliate story and I started straight away (after going premium) on not one site, but two at the same time. I had after all a lot of time on my hands and besides I was already a pro in building sites (IT Expert), so two sites at a time should work fine. The result was that I quickly got overburdened by my own over-ambitious goals.

I dropped the two sites and went for something new. Now I would be just focusing on one website to write for. All great, but I was still a little over-ambitious because I said to myself "Okay, I can write daily blogs".

Of course resistance caught up with me yet once again and I got troubles writing new and fresh articles and doing so every day made that I felt burned out after a while.

Going For The Smallest Amount

When you run into things like writers block, you have run into your own resistance. When you run into this resistance you can battle it by going for the smallest possible amount of something. The idea is that if the task at hand is the smallest possible, that it might slip past the watching eye of your resistance.

For example:
Try to write a post every day for your site. If you can't write a whole post, than reduce it to half an article. If you cannot write half an article, write one sentence. If you don't manage to do that either, than just figure out an article title / topic. If that is also too hard, than perhaps you just want to login to your dashboard and click on the new post button and then close it again.

Find the smallest unit of a task so that you got enough willingness to complete it.

Get the picture?

You can maybe not always do what you should, but you must do what you can.

And while you are doing the smallest amount of work, your inertia/resistance is asleep. Very quickly you will feel the love coming back for the things you love to do. Your creativity will return, your willingness to do more will come back.

By lowering the danger levels, you can get the great feelings back of the love you feel for your work.

Just one thing! Don't get too eager straight away, or you will pay for it the next time around.

- Steven

Other articles in the same series:
Resistance
Battling Resistance Part One
Battling Resistance Part Two (current)
Battling Resistance Part Three
Battling Resistance Part Four