Indecision may come because you’re unsure of your priorities, or because you don’t trust yourself to identify what is important. The mental block of indecision causes you to place too much value on each decision you feel that making the best decision about a single item determines your success or failure in an entire area. “I have to optimize every decision or I will fail!” Because it’s all happening inside your head, you may not realize how weak those arguments are. Self-doubt isn’t logical, but it will find arguments that seem logical and parade them before you. Self-doubt makes you feel unqualified: no matter how hard you’ve worked to develop your skills, no matter what other, objective parties may say, you feel that what you do has little value. The mental block of self-doubt can show up in lots of different ways: as a specific fear (perhaps of embarrassment or low quality of work), as general anxiety, or as imposter phenomenon. “I never feel qualified, no matter how qualified I am.” Which ones sound most familiar to you? 1. Here’s a shortlist of the most common mental blocks that can stop you from being prolifically creative. So, let’s kill the monologue! Or learn how to control it, and all the other common mental blocks that might slow you down. Inbox Zero will not save you if that negative monologue in your head is feeding you reasons that you can’t do the work you want to do. You can prime everything outside your head for prolific creativity, and what’s inside can stop you cold. However, if you focus only on the external components of productive creativity, and neglect the internal issues – those mental blocks – you’ll find yourself stuck in the same place over and over again. To increase your productivity and creativity, you’ve probably learned a lot about rituals and habits, and creating a good workspace, and using the right tools, and dealing with email. Deal with the internal to optimize the external You can experience flow in your work, increase your creative output, and enjoy your work process.īut you have to make it possible by clearing the way for your brain to make those connections (between parts of your brain, and between the bits of knowledge that your brain accumulates) required for creativity. In fact, prolific creativity is – or can be – your norm. You can find links to everything that we share in the show notes by going to /353.Being consistently prolific in your creative work is not an anomaly. We missed about a 1minute of recording but it won’t take away from the valuable content we have here today. I also want to apologize for a technical issue we had mid-way through the recording. We talked about how different music works for different people, the 5 types of brains, how to take care of your brain for optimal performance, and how to find the best music that works according to your brain type. They have different genres of music and playlists that help you get focused and into a flow state. He’s the CEO of which is a productivity music company. We’ve helped tens of thousands of people save time, be happier, and become more productive. Welcome to The Productivity Show, a podcast by Asian Efficiency, to help you maximize your productivity so you can get the important things done without having to sacrifice your health, family and things that matter to you.
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