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Mind Clutter

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When we think of clutter, we think of the messy closet. We think of the desk with too many papers, sticky notes, and notebooks on it. We think of the locker that has all of the papers scattered and notebooks squished together.

We think of clutter as actual, physical things that result in an untidy mess. There are countless things that can be found in that clutter. There might be enough things in the clutter to start an eBay business.

However, people don’t think of mind clutter. People can’t think of mind clutter because as the name suggest, mind clutter clutters the mind. It’s difficult to think of it or realize it’s even there. If you realize mind clutter is going on, another person probably won’t see it that way.

Mind clutter is all of those TV shows and commercials you see while trying to type a sentence. Mind clutter is that video you’re hearing when you’re working on your project. Real clutter can also result in mind clutter because working in a helter-skelter environment doesn’t work too well.

Your mind is a crucial part to your success. If your mind gets distracted, your work reflects on that. The only way to adapt to mind clutter is to do things very slowly. It ends up taking a minute to write a single sentence. It either takes much longer to accomplish something, or you don’t do what you wanted to accomplish as well as you could have.

Mind clutter is everywhere, but not everyone knows about mind clutter. There’s more clutter in the average mind than there is in the average closet. Get rid of the mind clutter, or take a break from the business.

A Rare Day Off

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I was typing away another blog post a week ago, and then I realized I didn’t write anything the day before. I had taken the day off. However, it wasn’t a day off. It was a rare day off.

I enjoy writing which is why the rare day off didn’t feel like the best day in the world. People who have 3 different jobs can’t wait for their day off. I try to avoid it as much as possible. In fact, I had been writing for about a year with no days off. Not writing for a day seemed foreign to me.

When you have your next day off, ask yourself if you’re having a day off or a rare day off. If you’re having a rare day off, why is it so rare?

Pros And Cons Are Just A Con

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Controversy is inevitable. When controversy comes up, we must choose a side. This is when we weigh the pros and cons. However, when we weigh the pros and cons, that takes up a lot of time.

Imagine writing a list of pros and cons for 30 minutes. Writing that list of pros and cons took up time you could have used doing something else. You could have been scheduling social media updates or taking a break from your business.

Writing down and even thinking about the pros and cons takes up time. Time is a valuable resource, and when you write down or think of the pros and cons, you’re wasting more time.

The pros and cons will be necessary for some controversial topics. Pros and cons are necessary when deciding between being a Republican or Democrat. However, if you’re weighing the pros and cons for something related to your niche or business that you can do yourself, weighing the pros and cons is just a con.

The blog post before this was about blogging frequency. You can either blog daily or weekly. You can weigh the pros and cons all you want. However, you won’t know much about blogging frequency unless you give something a try.

Writing a list of your goals is a great idea. Writing a list of pros and cons is not a great idea. That takes up time. The time you lose from writing your pros and cons could have been spent actually testing out the idea. Instead of writing a list of the pros and cons of blogging daily and weekly, you can actually write blog posts and see what you ideal frequency is. Do you write really long blog posts that take days to complete or can you publish a blog post every day?

You already asked the question. Writing a list of pros and cons isn’t the answer. You’re still stuck with the question. You didn’t question the question either. The only way to answer the question is to actually take action. You can ask yourself if you’re good enough to upload videos to YouTube. The only way you will know if you are good enough is by recording videos of yourself.

Don’t list the pros and cons. Make a quick decision and implement it. If it doesn’t work, or you feel like you can do more, make the change. Don’t overwhelm yourself with giant lists. Instead, just focus on starting and doing.

Staying Committed With The Help Of A Pen And Notebook

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In order to accomplish all of your goals, you have to stay committed from Day 1 until you complete your goal. Going astray for a short amount of time can be devastating for your goal.

In order to stay committed, you have to make the investment for your business to buy a notebook and a pen. If you have both of those, you’re ahead of the game.

When I write down my goals, I get them accomplished. One of the goals I wrote down was to write a book. I didn’t just write a book, but now I have written many books which are all on Kindle.

When you write down your goals on a daily basis, you are staying committed to that goal. When you stay committed, success greets you on the other side, and like a best friend, doesn’t leave.

Tunnel Vision VS Multi Tasking

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Tunnel vision is another way of saying that you’re focused on one thing. If you’re recording a video right now, you’re only thinking of that video. That Twitter update doesn’t matter until you finish recording the video. That’s tunnel vision.

Multi Tasking is trying to write in a notebook and look at your statistics at the same time. You write in your notebook, and then you look up every once in a while to look at the statistics. That’s multi tasking.

Multi tasking seems like the better choice since you get two things done at the same time. I wrote a blog post about multi tasking saying that is was possible. I read other people’s blogs while running on the treadmill.

If you have a choice, tunnel vision is the way to go. Multi tasking allows you to accomplish your goals based on quantity. Tunnel vision allows you to accomplish those goals with quality. When you’re taking a break from recording that video, you can check that Twitter update and reply quickly, but then it’s back to the video.

With tunnel vision, when you see something else emerge, you ignore it or spend little time on it. Then, you go back to what you were doing. I find tunnel vision very useful when it comes to writing one of my books or blog posts.

However, when it comes to taking notes, it is essential to multi task. When the speaker says something important, you write it down and wait for the speaker to say something else that is important.

Multi tasking and tunnel vision have their own benefits. In some cases, multi tasking will work better than tunnel vision. If you listen to what the speaker has to say, and you don’t write anything down, what have you learned? However, tunnel vision is usually the better approach. Usually doesn’t mean always though.

If It Were Easy

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Everyone would be doing it.

If being a bestselling author was easy, everyone would be writing their own book and becoming the next bestselling author.

If having a million Twitter followers was easy, everyone would be on Twitter talking with over a million followers.

If having a mansion was easy, everyone would move into a mansion or turn their house into a mansion.

If having a successful business was easy, everyone would be an entrepreneur, and none of them would quit. Sadly, over 90% of them quit within the first 5 years.

If coming up with a big idea was easy, everyone would be thinking of big ideas. The people who can’t think of big ideas sell products similar to their competition.

If running the mile was easy, everyone would be running that mile without stopping. It isn’t as easy as it appear.

However, it’s not easy. That’s why few people do the difficult tasks. The safety zone is not safe at all. Everyone is in the safety zone which makes individuals in the safety zone become invisible.

Becoming a bestselling author, having a million Twitter followers, having a mansion, having a successful business, coming up with a big idea, and running the mile are not easy. As we get more experience, these tasks become easier.

After writing a lot of books, an author can build a following and eventually become a bestselling author.

After consistently tweeting for years and going viral, it is possible for someone to reach a million followers without knowing how to sing well or buying a million followers.

Everyone who started with a business started at the bottom. Macintosh computers were first made in garage. Now Apple is a multibillion dollar company that pays billions of dollars in taxes. They can pay those billion dollars in taxes and still make a profit with their Macs, iPhones, iPads, and more. Amazon started out as a bookstore. Now Jeff Bezos is a billionaire who recently bought the Washington Post. Not bad for “another bookstore.”

When someone thinks of a big idea, and creates a business based on that big idea, that person has a good chance of becoming successful. Twitter, Facebook. Instagram, Pinterest, and Google are some of the big ideas. The person who came up with an idea for any of these social networks (or Google) is either a millionaire or a billionaire. That’s not bad for an idea that started out on paper. Back in 2004, people would have looked at you funny if you talked about Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest. Google was around at that time, but Google+ was not.

Running the mile becomes easy after a lot of practice. People give up when they run the mile for the first time because it’s excruciating. The people who run day after day will be able to easily run the mile.

It’s not easy, but with practice, dedication, and commitment, you will make it easy.