Starting Trouble
Its an uneasy feeling that dampens your spirit right from the start, you feel like a heavy rain cloud ready to burst with ideas and actually start doing stuff but nothing quite happens. You remain in the thinking zone, frustrated, that the right time or place hasn’t favored you.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett
Opinions and Misconceptions
Too many views born out of others’ experiences creates a mental block that becomes almost impossible to challenge. Your friend may tell you about how hard it is to bag a job as a Graphic Designer because of market competition, and you convince yourself that its not worth the effort.
Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality ~ Les Brown
Fear of Ridicule
You make a beginning but there is a lingering fear that pulls you down each day, you’re not confident that you’ll make it to the end. And if you don’t, what are others going to think or whisper behind your back.
Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth ~ William Warburton
Money Woes
Uncertain about the new side-project you’ve been wanting to start - maybe it won’t pay well, won’t guarantee a secure future, too many hang-ups.. so you settle for the well-trodden path instead.
Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will. ~ Nelson Mandela
Mood Swings
If only it were sunny today, just perfect for a long run; Its a bit cloudy but I miss the drizzle, would have been perfect for writing that story; I’m not up for it, maybe tomorrow; I somehow just don’t feel like, maybe after some TV.
I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I’m in different moods, I want to read different things. ~ Felicity Jones
Peer Comparison
Someone, somewhere, somehow is doing better than me — that’s an unreasonable comparison you’re making by looking at the result of a success story and not the journey of an individual who made it that far.
Comparison is an act of violence against the self. ~ Iyanla Vanzant
Erratic Routine
Practice (Once in a while) + Consistency (Whenever I feel like) + Persistence (That’s too hard) = Erratic Routine.
The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine ~ Mike Murdock
Rapid Burnout
Energy released in sudden bursts may give you short-term results but affect your mental and physical health in the long-term.
I feel burnout comes as a result of consistent over-simulation. ~ Dinesh Paliwal
Conflict of Priority
You have 10 tasks in your to-do list and all of them take the №1 spot. Strangely you feel like one is cannibalizing the other in terms of priority and you’re unable to decide what must be done first. The to-do list has become a Frankenstein.
Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have. ~ John C. Maxwell
Lack of Clarity
Can you articulate the objective of your work ? Do you understand what you tell yourself ? Does it really appeal to you ? Try writing it down.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. ~ Albert Einstein
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