Study Long Study Wrong

I was experiencing this a couple weeks ago, that is why I made the post, I stepped out of my comfort zone and began trying new things, so I bought some ebooks, and read them, then when I began to implement the strategies I felt overwhelmed and over my head.

But then I remembered when I began internet marketing. when I look back at some of my first work I laughed, but I was still making money.

So even if you think you are doing things wrong do it anyway, you will then learn from experience, which is the best to me.

You can be told something a million times, but you wont learn until you see for yourself

Remember being a kid, parents never made sense until we moved out on our own, now it's like damn they were right. Should of listened

Hi,

If you have a bunch of tasks that need doing (and perhaps the quantity of them are what is overwhelming) choose one that you think you can face.

Get stuck in to that one task, even if you are worried that it might be all that you achieve that day, because you are feeling so unmotivated.

What I find is that by taking action (any action) it flips the brain into a different mode where it is focussed on the good stuff rather than whatever it was before. Often, if I think too long before a task, it seems like it's going to be a drag. But if I force myself to get started, I realise that it's less of a drag than sitting staring at the screen doing nothing.

The mind can play tricks on you. And it has a little lazy part that tells you that everything is going to be a grind whenever you sit and think about it. But the truth is that it's doing nothing (or studying as a way to avoid work) that makes you feel the worst.

The way to silence the lazy part, is to do something, which provides a nice little endorphine hit which overpowers and silences the negative lazy bit.

I'm not a psychologist, but this is my 'street-level' theory which works for me.

Another trick is to find some stats where you have done well, that relate to a long term task where you put the work in at first, but received the pay off later. By reminding yourself of this achievement, it helps the brain to realise that there may not be an instant pay off, but it will arrive if you do the groundwork. Otherwise, without us realising it, the brain can sometimes reject a task and proscrastinate because it can't compute working hard without an instant pay off.

When I have studied how the subconscious mind works and how to program it (for hypnosis for example), often it is said that the subconscious is like a big kid - which is why it prefers visual suggestions and simple, obvious tricks like visualisations.

Therefore, it makes sense that the subconscious will try and trip you up if it doesn't see instant gratification. Again, just my 'street-level' amateur psychology theory. Works for me. Maybe I'm the big kid?

I study for at least an hour everyday, but when I learn something new I test it right away, forums can be trouble, they get traffic, but can be a devil in disguise if not used properly