Schedule: Calculate and allocate your work according to your goals. Set goals: How many articles do you want to produce per month, per week? How many words do you have to write per day to finish a first draft of that 180,000-word novel? How to overcome procrastination in terms of writing: We can create whatever we want. There’s no right moment. Next time we just need to increase the weights.īy doing, we can change our lives. If we fail, we create an opportunity to learn. If we create something unworthy, we have exercised. Then why is it often so damn difficult to do this? Why do we rather occupy ourselves with mundane tasks or mindless scrolling just not to create? Why do we resist it so much?įEAR. Fear of failure, fear of producing something unworthy. It’s not until we sit down and actually do the work that we are able to create. We create by doing, not by dreaming of doing. Sounds simple, right? We don’t just put off our lives today we put them off till our deathbed.” The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. Resistance #1: Resistance and Procrastinationįrom the War of Art: “Procrastination is the most common manifestation of Resistance because it’s the easiest to rationalize. We don’t tell ourselves, “I’m never going to write my symphony.” Instead we say, “I am going to write my symphony I’m just going to start tomorrow.

Let me share the lessons I took from the book with examples and tips I use in my own writing routine. We can conquer our resistance to create, our fear, and even our procrastination. That we rather rearrange our bookshelves according to color, watch another episode of Game of Thrones or let ourselves get absorbed by Youtube.

To accept that we fear and resist to create. The book is about a change in your attitude towards creating. Be bold, do, sit down, face the scary cursor and write. When I read the wonderful book ‘The War of Art’ by Steven Pressfield, it was like I internally flipped a switch. Most of us experience it: resistance to writing. To postpone it and to fear it.

The war of art book