Breaking the Perfectionism-Procrastination Infinite Loop
Putting it off doesn’t make it go away. Getting it done does. — Ned Hallowell, Driven to Distraction You get out of the meeting with your client, full of ideas and energy about what you’re going to do next. You commit to a deadline for ideas, a proposal, designs — some kind of deliverable to […]
Is Your Inner Critic Too Loud? Tune It Out!
“Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.” — W. H. Auden, poet In the past, the Inner Critic may have seemed like a huge, intimidating presence in your mind, with your stringent self-criticisms appearing as if they are the […]
How to Reclaim Time and Create Mental Space
In our age of distraction and overwhelm, it’s all too easy to forget that time is a mental construct, and what our brains are actually keeping track of is where we put our attention. If you have simply too much going on to be creative, then you need to shift attention, especially as the management […]
How to Transform Your Inner Critic Into an Inner Evaluator
“Change is the end result of all true learning.” — Leo Buscaglia, author Much of what people think of as the Inner Critic is precisely what we are dealing with in this book: the voice of self-criticizing, self-doubt, and self-berating. However, there is another part of our psyche I think of more as “the Inner […]
How to Generate A Lot of Ideas
If you are afraid that you’ll run out of ideas, then the obvious solution is to come up with a lot of them regularly. Serial entrepreneur James Altucher calls this regular practice to keep the idea muscle of your brain from atrophying “idea therapy.” Don’t let your brain get flabby – exercise your “idea muscle.” […]
