How To Get in an Article Writing Frenzy

How To Get in an Article Writing Frenzy

I'm going to share with you a routine I do almost every morning.
I generally do not look forward to writing articles. Any excuse I
can use to procrastinate I will... unless I get into what I call a
“Writing-Frenzy” state.

I'm going to share with you a four step sequence that gets me in
such a state almost every time. Here it is:

1) Clarity
2) Leverage
3) Confusion
4) Power

Clarity. First, I ask myself -- “What do I really want to get out
of this, and what's stopping me right now from getting it?”.
Almost every time I tell myself that I just want to write
productively for six hours and enjoy doing it.
Usually I find what's stopping me is I am focusing on the
negatives of article writing instead of the positives. I realize that
if I want to enjoy the process, I need to think of all the benefits I
get from writing articles. This gets me pumped up. This means
I'm ready for the next step.

Leverage. It's not enough to realize what I want, and how to get
it. I have to actually feel compelled to take action on this
information. Here's how I do it. First, I think of how painful it
would be if everyday I did something I didn't enjoy doing. I
imagine how poor of a quality of life I would have if I never
broke through resistance, and had a weak will. Scary!

Then, I imagine how great it would be if I could work all day
while having a smile on my face and feeling good about myself.
I also think about how cultivating this habit will improve other
areas of my life.

What I have essentially done is changed how I feel about the
task at hand. I've deliberately thought about how bad it would be
to not change my state, and how good it will be to change my
state to get what I want. It's the old pain/pleasure principle.

Just doing these two steps alone will make the article writing
process much easier. But let's not just stop there.

Confusion. Obviously, I linked negative feelings to writing for
6 hours. I realized I wanted to enjoy the process instead. I
realized how much pleasure I would gain from it, and how much
pain I would avoid if I made it happen. But wouldn't it be great
if I completely removed the negative feelings from my mind?

Yes it would.

Here's how I do it instantly. You can do the same, and you'll
find you automatically start laughing and have a smile on your
face when you sit down to write your article.

First, I picture myself sitting at my desk, writing my articles.
Then I picture myself with clown makeup on, writing the
articles. Then I create a picture of me writing the articles upside
down, on the ceiling. In my mind I imagine doing cartwheels at
breakneck speed, shouting out the words to an article, birds
flying in the window whispering research into my ear, and any
other crazy scenarios I can come up with.

Every time I do this, it makes me chuckle. I have now changed
my my association of sitting down and writing an article from
dread to comedy. When I actually go to sit down and write the
article, I am no longer thinking it will be tedious – because the
silly pictures pop into my head, and makes me laugh. I have
created a whole new feeling to associate with writing articles.
Now there's only one thing left to do.

Power. It's sufficient to create confusion to laugh at the process
instead of dread it. But wouldn't it be even better if, when you
sit down to write your articles, you felt powerful? Imagine what
it would be like if every time you wrote an article you increased
your sense of fulfillment in life?

The trick is after you have created confusion about the pain and
pleasure you link to the task at hand, you can now replace it
with a new, empowering alternative. I use a metaphor. I
imagine that every word I write is a brick, which is building a
golden pyramid. Each article presents another story on this
pyramid. At the top of the pyramid I see my ideal self.
Each article helps bring me closer to my ideal self. Each article
is a way for me to strengthen my discipline, commitment, will
power and focus. Each article also generates me money, which I
can use to invest in other business opportunities, to invest in my
own personal development, or just to spend on things that bring
me joy in life.

When I get to this stage, I am now in now in my ideal “article
writing frenzy state”.

Here's a quick review of the process. First, I decide what I want
to get out of writing my articles – the ability to work all day and
feel happy. Next, I motivate myself to actually want to strive to
achieve this, by thinking about how pleasurable it would be to
do so, and how painful it would be to not do so. Then I interrupt
the feelings I currently link to the process at hand, by thinking
of a ridiculous and silly picture. This “unlinks” any negative
feelings I would have about setting down and writing. What is
left is for me to “relink” my feelings to something extremely
positive, and empowering, so I feel with each article I write, I
fulfill my sense of purpose.

I want you to know something. The first few times I tried doing
this, it didn't really work. That was because it was a new process
I wasn't used to. I didn't have a “golden triangle” metaphor yet
created, I wasn't sure how to create confusion (by thinking of a
funny picture), and part of me was skeptical that it would even
work.

But whenever I try something new, I always make a 7 day
commitment. I just say, “For the next seven days, I am going to
try this. I don't care if it works or not. I am just going to do it
whole heartedly for the next 7 days, and then evaluate its
usefulness.”

After trying this process for three days, I started getting good at
it. By the end of the week, It would work for me almost every
time. And it started to go quicker, too. Now it takes me all of
about a minute to get into an article writing state, if I go through
the process every day.

With that said, I want to tell you a quick story, which will help
you with all aspects of your article writing.

I grew up my whole life as a wrestler. My dad was head
wrestling coach at the high school I would attend. Every thing I
did as a child was related to becoming a better wrestler. We
would train like mad-men.

I remember one day where it just hit me – I was in almost
perfect physical shape. I told my dad this. He said prove it. So
he took me into a hallway at school that had two flights of stairs.
“If you can run up and down these stairs for an hour straight,
you are in peak physical shape.”

He explained to me what to do. Run as hard as I can for five
minutes up and down the stairs, then jog for one minute. Doing
this ten times would equal an hour.

So for the next hour I did this. Whenever I'd start to tire or slow
down, he'd yell at me, and motivate me to keep up the pace
.
Somehow, I managed to finish. When I was done, I was
exhausted. I threw up because I worked myself so hard. But I
had done it.

Then, shortly after I got burned out on wrestling and took a
week break. During that time, I didn't work out at all. When I
came back, I couldn't run even run the stairs for a half an hour at
the same pace.

The point is it took me all year to get in almost perfect shape,
but it only took me a week to get out of shape.
Sometimes I'm a slow learner, though. There are some days
when I skip the formula to put me in a writing frenzy mind state,
thinking it is unnecessary. There are days where I don't time
each article I write, because I don't feel like doing it. However, I
always pay the price. It always takes me longer to write the
articles, and I don't receive the same amount of enjoyment out of
the process.

If you want to get the most of your article writing, you'll do the
exercise I outlined above every time you sit down to write your
articles. After you get good at it, it only takes a few minutes to
do. Trust me, it's worth it.

Not only do you become more productive, you actually get a
sense of fulfillment out of the process.
week break. During that time, I didn't work out at all. When I
came back, I couldn't run even run the stairs for a half an hour at
the same pace.

The point is it took me all year to get in almost perfect shape,
but it only took me a week to get out of shape.
Sometimes I'm a slow learner, though. There are some days
when I skip the formula to put me in a writing frenzy mind state,
thinking it is unnecessary. There are days where I don't time
each article I write, because I don't feel like doing it. However, I
always pay the price. It always takes me longer to write the
articles, and I don't receive the same amount of enjoyment out of
the process.

If you want to get the most of your article writing, you'll do the
exercise I outlined above every time you sit down to write your
articles. After you get good at it, it only takes a few minutes to
do. Trust me, it's worth it.

Not only do you become more productive, you actually get a
sense of fulfillment out of the process.