The 1 Unconventional Mindset You Have to Have to Be Consistent with Your Craft
When you talk about how you got where you are, about the victories you have had, you might probably include how you had to work really, really hard.
You were undeterred. Probably outperforming yourself at times. You had little to no help from others, and the definition of “little” swung between variants of deception and where you didn’t gain by much.
You had to sacrifice much of everything you could have related to as a teen for making progress, and what you could have loved as an adult for transmuting the progress into recognizable chunks of paper.
The point is you didn’t do what others around you were doing. The alternative everyone trying to have their paths winded out is faced with was there for you to choose — but you didn’t.
But, for what?
You definitely wouldn’t know how much of your process you got over-burnt, and how much that never got to be put through the test.
That’s why the hardest working period of your life is often overrated — as opposed to when you worked half as long, but twice as efficient and smart. Because with efficiency, you get to ask “Why didn’t I get here earlier?” instead of looking back to how many hours you filled, and how relatively you could feel like you have come a long way.
The inevitable trait to develop to knock out all the extra work that’s only going to be decorative, and fill your hours concisely is —
The realization of your Mind as an obstacle.
You might think you can always have your mind on a leash — but the reassurance significantly defeats actually wanting one. Or that it’s a kind of customary hangout you meet with your mind all the time where you can sort things out your way over a drink of reasoning — but reasoning fails solidly to your emotions.
This is the kind of tell you should reflect on. If how you emote disagrees with knowing what you should do next, you end up repetitively exploiting the same resources. You are reduced from a passionate “lot” to an obsessive “few”.
No, you don’t have to have OCD. This turns up as a common denominator when you try to make something that creates as much strain in your mind as sometimes when you are compelled to check on your doors and windows every few minutes.
And what has you more obsessed than your craft?
This insecure feeling is reciprocated in you when you bother enough to mistake a slight bump for a setback, and for it to appear fairly dead-on:
“I am not sure I have to do this so abruptly and ruin the essence. I have to take my time starting it.”
“I need to do more research.”
“I am not sure the world is ready for this yet.”
“Maybe I have to redo everything.”
“I am going to begin the project once I complete all my other works, so that I can have a fresh mind when I do.”
You are even afraid to go near your laptop, because then you’d be obliged to make something and it could turn out to be mediocre.
The longer an idea spends its worth in your mind, the faster it loses juice for the world.
No matter which part of the process you might be in, you have to understand this:
There is a short period of time you will find whatever you are preparing yourself for executable.
You miss that window, and you will find it’s overripe.
There will be a lot of things you are going to be spending time on that don’t contribute to your goals. But they make you feel like they do, exploiting the way your mind works when it comes to doing things you are insecure about.
The key is to cut some slack off all the unnecessary work that might make sense at the time of its doing. But it’s your mind that fears something about yourself that has you doing all that, or has you calling quits long before the actual battle.
