I haven’t written a new article in almost five days. Why? It’s not because I’ve been too busy. I’ve had a lot going on, but I’ve had multiple opportunities to sit down and write.
It’s not because of my 90 day social challenge. I’m more than 5 days and 3,000 words into that experiment, but there’s no reason that should have prevented me from writing new personal development material.
The real reason I haven’t written a new article in five days? I’ve been too busy being semi productive. I’ve been too busy researching personal development, and not enough time producing.
It’s a dangerous trap to fall into. Mental masturbation it is. Habits with one-percent payoffs are sneaky. It’s easy to justify spending hours everyday looking for the idea or method that’s going to change your life.
There’s a running joke in the pick up community that most guys will never end up going out and approaching girls because there too caught up in finding the fool proof method. I thought it was hilarious until I realized that I was the type of guy these jokes were being aimed at. That’s why I’m doing the 90 Day Social Challenge.
However, even if you’re already experiencing abundance in the relationship area of your life this concept can still be applied to other areas as well. For example, blogging.
I spent two years researching blogs and internet marketing before I finally created one. Is my blog better than some other new blogger who’s never researched the blogging industry or internet businesses? Probably. Is it better than someone who’s actually been blogging for two years? Hell no.
At this point in time, someone who’s been blogging for two years is almost guaranteed to have a higher quality blog. The reason being is that they simply have more reference experiences in this domain.
They haven’t spent years engaging in mental masturbation and searching for the fool proof method. They’ve gotten into the real world and have found out what actually works first hand. The’ve spent less time worrying about failure, and more time learning from it.
You can pick up ideas about blogging (or anything else) from reading about other people’s experiences of it, but you’ll never internalize the lessons until you start getting in the field and gaining those first hand reference experiences yourself.
STOP RESEARCHING AND START TAKING ACTION!
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