I write 10k words on designated writing days, edit 20k, and publish 6 books in a year while working a full time office job with young kids. How? Harnessing my mind. The male mind works a specific way and you must understand it to use it. Thread on optimizing the male mind:
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Designated spaces are crucial. Your mind forms associations based on what you do in each area. Surf Facebook at your work desk long enough and your brain stops recognizing it as a work desk. Now it’s your lounging desk. Keep your spaces sacrosanct. Don’t surf where you work.
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Exercise helps reset the brain back to zero. Closes all the folders and gets you out of those dark or emotional places. Emotional hemisphere sucks the logical hemisphere dry for those emotion spikes, but exercise beats emotion. Jumping jacks, bursts of energy, hard stretching.
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If you can’t find the energy to focus, do a burst of exercise until you feel your brain calming down. Get that flow state, that runners high, that calm mind. Then throw in a ritual to shift you into the correct mindset. Go to zero, then head down the proper road.
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Combine rituals, designated spaces, and exercise to flip back and forth in your folders and always be in the right mindset. If you can’t focus on work, rebuild these 3 areas to optimize your productivity. Want to conquer? Learn how your brain works and harness it. Get to it.
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If you want to see my mind at work, check out the Kickstarter for my next book series. I’ve got 7 novels planned in this series alone. $20 gets you all 6 of my fiction books.https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/burritoavenger/savage-hunters?ref=project_tweet …
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