All or None. All the Time

Anyone else have the struggle with an all-or-none mindset that seems to drive your results and motivation?

And I am talking about this inner drive sort of thing.

There are times – and I can’t schedule for this or plan for it – but I seem to wake up ready to work and take on the world. Literally.

In a typical week, I may wake up one day with nothing going on upstairs in my mind and the other day in my head it’s like a mall the Friday after Thanksgiving. On a day like that, I am ready to write edit and share 4 blogs posts (at once) , invite 1,000 people to see my business ideas, send 500 emails, solve the energy crisis, bring world peace, save the whales, make America great again, and more.

There are days (and weeks) where I instead can’t get a single thing done. A good day here might be spending an entire day with no direction whatsoever and zero accomplishments except I returned some cans for $20 in cash (which I exchanged for Pizza), watered some plants for my wife, finished my coffee, took a shower perhaps, didn’t lose any children, and caught up on Master Chef.

The question I have is one other bloggers seem to have as well. How do you learn to break things down so you accomplish huge accomplishments in the long term beyond just knowing some basics? I know that if I write 1 blog post a day it becomes 365 a year and talking to 3 people a day = 1,000 a year. I know everyday to do something. I know the secrets. I know what will work. Yet on those days I am stuck and I get behind and then try to make it up on my inspired days and get overwhelmed and want to quit.

And I am not alone in that.

The other challenge is it is hard to TIME my “ah-ha” moments for when I am in position to be able to do something with them. I will get a great idea for say a blog post, from start to finish, it will be exciting and something I look forward to writing. If I had a computer and 30 minutes in that moment, it would turn out pretty good. Instead, later on in the day when the dust settles, I will write some of these thoughts on paper and it doesn’t translate into anything worth writing. It lacks any inner spark, any passion, and it stays in draft indefinitely.

Anyone, anyone? Well thanks for listening. At the very least I have written a start of a blog post. Just 3 more to go. And then I can tackle that world peace thing.