How do YOU stay motivated to write this much copy

I don't drink coffee, alcohol, or do drugs, so... That won't help me much

This is a great way to do the exact opposite. :confused:

Coffee/sugar triggers cortisol (so do many drugs as its your bodies response to stress), when your cortisol crashes, your adrenaline goes up (one always compensates for the other), this can leave you both tired & wired at the same time. Laying in bed sleepy as hell, but can't sleep.

Its been shown caffiene & sugar consumption for more than a couple of years can and often does throw your hormones out of balance. Many caffiene addicts don't even realize it. They yawn, have insomnia, can't focus on one thing, a lot of this is routed to what caffiene does to your adrenals.

Booze is just disgusting, its a great way to put a massive damper on your creativity levels.

Drugs... won't even get into that. Any drug I've ever put in my body has definitely killed my creativity. Although I don't think pot is personally that bad a drug (when used seldomly).

My real recommendation if you want to hijack your biology and make it completely resistant to stress and fatigue. There is only one thing in the world I know of that actually works for doing this.

They're called vegetables. Far too many americans I know don't eat enough vegetables. In fact I have a pretty long story I can tell about my own life, not eating vegetables, and what it did to my health.

One thing I will say is ever since I started drinking liquified veggies, 3 times a day (the bad tasting veggies like carrots/kale/cauliflower/spinach/broccli/etc) I can't even explain what its done for my health.

I was fighting lymes disease for 2 years, antibiotics weren't doing much. I was becoming very irritable, always tired but could never sleep. Was having serious problems in my neurological system as my senses were becoming "blurred" (would take too long to explain but say I'd scratch my left leg, I'd feel it on the right side of my body - as crazy as it sounds its scary as hell to deal with). All I know is when I got on a regular routine of eating tons of veggies everyday, I have more energy, more focus, more motivation than I can explain. It also seems veggies allowed the antibiotics to work better, because my lymes eventually went away after 2 years (for the most part). Got it by innocently jogging through a forest one day, woke up a couple weeks later and my back was covered with a deep red circle. Won't even explain some of the things that happened to me (paralysis, etc) but I genuinely believe vegetables saved my life. I bs you not.

Can't really say how many people realize this, but vegetables do so many positive things for your body/brain I have now almost become a vegetarian due to it. I don't eat heavy protiens anymore like chicken or redmeat. All my protien comes from fish, beans or eggs. Then the rest if all vegetables.

Living on this diet now for the last 3 years or so COMPLETELY changed my health. I sleep like a baby, have energy to excercise again, am more positive... have not had a cup of coffee in years. I avoid sugar like its the plague, because it is the plague. I MIGHT have an occassional cup of tea, but always put stevia in it now.

Anyway, thats how I stay resistant against fatigue & stress. It works better than anything else I've ever tried before in my life, and thats just being honest.

-Red

Absolutely! Plus realizing that you are honing your copywriting skills with every copy you write.

Yes, Sabinavarga. My sentiments exactly.

What do you do to recharge your battery?

Where do you gain inspiration? (and no, I don't mean from reading books or chillin' on this forum, but rather, going out and living life, without even thinking about copy.)

Do the projects you take on stimulate you?

Or...

Do you take projects on just for the money?

Feeling creatively depleted, i.e. having an empty head, is the result of too much energy going out... and not nearly enough coming in.

And this is a terrific way to get burnt out in a hurry.

You gotta give to yourself FIRST, before you EVER think about giving to someone else.

Equally...

You've got to FEEL jacked about the projects you take on.

Otherwise...

Just write your own stuff and wait for a client who genuinely peeks your imagination.

Mark Pescetti

P.S. A lot of entrepreneurs seem to forget the number one asset they have is their own well-being.

Thanks.

I was reading some stuff yesterday and it said it was pretty typical for a writer to write 3 to 4 hours per day 6 days per week.

One of the tips was to get into a relaxed mental state.

Before you write...

-Get a little exercise
-Meditate a little bit
-Listen to Mozart