SILENCING YOUR INNER CRITIC: 7 IDEAS TO STOP UNREASONABLE EXPECTATIONS BLOCKING YOU FROM GETTING STARTED

You’re not going to be perfect right away - reset your brain to focus on progress rather than perfection. It’s always been my mission to help people, and I’ve wanted to get into writing, blogging and vlogging for some time. I’ll create a perfect system, get all the right gear, finally sit down to write, and then it starts… the wall of doubt, the dreaded blank page and the master procrastinator.

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LESSONS FROM WRITING MY OWN EULOGY

It’s always enjoyable when things start to link together in life. This happened for me earlier in 2019, when a combination of sources all mentioned similar advice - Start with the end in mind. This is habit 2 in Stephen Covey’s renowned book, ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People’. I’d come across it in this book before, but it resurfaced during personal coaching sessions and on various other articles and books I’d been reading at the time.

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BEING RICH

There are two ways to be rich - make more money, or spend less and be grateful with what you’ve got. With any busy job, it’s easy to lose this perspective. It’s not rocket science, but it’s something I find really useful when confronted with the latest shiny phone/car/boat/helicopter. Humans are good at getting used to a certain lifestyle - this is why payrises are a poor way to increase employee happiness in the longer term.

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BOOK - TAKEAWAYS FROM HAL ELROD’S MIRACLE MORNING

Miracle Morning, Hal Elrod, Amazon I listened to the audiobook of this, but took a lot from it in the final part of our trip round Australia. Takeaways 95% of people settle in life, they accept mediocre and average, they get to the end regretting what they’ve done, or what they haven’t. To excel above “average” people, you have to do something different. Having a personal mission and values will help and provide a deeper level of motivation.

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HOW LOSS AVERSION HELPED ME TO CHANGE MY EXERCISE ROUTINE.

Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman coined the term loss aversion back in the 1970s. The psychological theory goes that you feel the pain of losing something you already have more than the joy at getting a new thing. This works in all aspects of life, and you’ll often see it done in marketing or sales processes. The free 100-night trial of Tempur mattresses is a good example - an expensive purchase, but I suspect it’s much harder for people to give up the memory foam magic after getting used to it over such a long period.

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GETTING STARTED

Blogging and writing online can be hard. I’ve always found it a challenge to get down and write for myself, and looking back, I think there are a couple of reasons for this: I’m often daunted by the sheer volume of information that’s out there already. There’s just so much great stuff already online, what could I possibly add? It’s easy to get distracted by formatting and making things look pretty, rather than the content Often the platform gets in the way.

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