I'm trying too hard

I recently wrote about how I felt more in my element when there wasn’t money involved. Since then, my feeds dropped some answers. I think.

It’s definitely the “Law of Reversed Effort”, as @thejustinwelsh had said:

An interesting observation about business: The harder you try to make money, the less you earn. When you have fun online, help people achieve their goals, and invest in your own growth, revenue goes up. Turns out this is a real thing: ‘The Law of Reversed Effort’. Who knew?

I’m trying too hard to make my paid products work.

The expectations.
The stress.
The tunnel vision.

There’s this tweet about how when you stress yourself too much, tighten too much, and try too hard you lose matches:

I’ve worked with numerous professional athletes in my time as a coach, as an ex-international athlete myself. On occasion, the message is simple:

• Stop trying so hard
• Quit obsessing over the result
• Relax
• Enjoy yourself

When you free yourself of this sympathetic prison. You perform. To truly harness this power you must master the parasympathetic nervous system. This is activated when you are no longer at threat, which is why Ryan’s locker room resembled Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.

So it’s about not letting the weight of the task pull you down. It’s NOT about being unambitious, or having fun and forgetting about results. Pro athletes want to win too, but they don’t let the stress get to them. They learn to lean into the heat, and relax but perform.

And so should I.

Maybe, just maybe, I should just build, instead of over-thinking and asking too many questions.

just tinker & build, that’s the answer. the path will present itself. don’t think so much. the answer is building; the answer isn’t asking questions. – @searchbound

It’s true.

Build first, ask questions later.

Time to build.