Mental Block?? Do This 4 Steps to Overcome It and Feel Motivated Again

Have you heard about the word, Mental Block? Well, the reason why you are currently reading this article is that you have something that needs to be done but you are stuck, and not feeling motivated to finish that task. We all know that awful feeling when nothing helps and it feels like the end of the world. However, there are a number of ways for creative artists and content creators to overcome the motivational block and to use that motivation for their personal development.

If photography fuels your soul, filmmaking runs in your blood and writing is what keeps you going, you might have encountered motivational block a number of times where you find yourself losing interest and feel less creative. As content creators, we go through all sorts of phases, rethinking our ideas and feeling anxious before finally putting up that video we made online or publishing the new script we wrote or submitting our portfolios.

Here are some simple and life-changing rules to get you started on what’s taking too long to accomplish. If you keep these rules in your mind each time you feel pressured and demotivated, these will always help you to kick start.

Carry a Small Notebook

If you are an artist, you must be familiar with the feeling of desperately rummaging through your mind for inspiring ideas but the pressure never helps if you’re not confident of your choices. It is a fact that the most inspiring and moving ideas come to you where you least expected, random times that tend to often slip by in a matter of seconds so here’s what you should do; Carry a small notebook with you to quickly write down your objective or inspired thought and casually move on with the day. This always helps when you can’t come up with any ideas.

Explore Your Favorite Artists

If you are lacking motivation as you sit behind a blank white canvas, it is ten times productive for you to go through some of your favorite artists’ work to get a hold of why you chose to do what you do in the first place. It helps to collect your thoughts that seem to be all over the place and gather why you are passionate about what you do. Once you find the motive behind your passion, you’ll feel the bulb lighting up in the back of your mind and you’ll find yourself finally getting started on that portfolio.

List of Goals

Sometimes when you have so much to do and you can’t decide where to start from, it is highly recommended to make a small list of the things you want to accomplish. Then start ticking off each of them. Making a list always makes you feel determined and productive.

It’s not always the lack of motivation that is the real issue. Sometimes, personal development means a great deal for a person with a goal. Knowing yourself and being true to who you are is not as easy as it sounds.

You should:

1. ) Be Accepting Towards Failure

Here’s the thing; failure and success go hand in hand. You can never get one without getting the other. The human brain tends to believe what it is fed. All you have to do is feed it the fact that failure is nothing but defective choices and lack of thought; which can always be fixed if you pay enough attention to it. It’s important to be confident in what you do because it is what defines you.

2.) Growth & Comfort: Absolute Opposites

If you’re trying to achieve something and want to grow, comfort is never going to help. Ginni Rometty, the CEO of IBM, once said, “I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.”

It is true. Stepping out of your comfort zone is when you truly accomplish your goals that are impossible to achieve if you take the easy way out and choose comfort instead. Always remember that growth and comfort are like the sea and the sky. They can never meet at one point. The polar opposites.

3.) The Other Side of Fear

Most of us fear what we haven’t really experienced. Success always lies on the other side of our fears. The best way to face your fears is to own it first. Accept your fear. Tell yourself what you’re afraid of and be accepting about it. Then make peace with your fear. Tell yourself that it’s okay to be afraid but do not reside in the comfort of being at peace with it.

Now that you’re okay with it, reclaim your potential. Know that you are in control of whatever happens from now on. Take the risk and build yourself right back up again. Not easy but not impossible either.

4.) Embrace change and emotions

Emotions can easily lead a person astray if they are not in control of their brain. If you don’t control your emotions, your emotions are likely to control you and that is not healthy. Change is important. If you stay in your comfort zone long enough, your will to live is going to fade to the point of losing interest even in the things you loved doing at one point. Embracing the uncertainty and questioning yourself twice. Rethinking and digging your conscience down to the core of your beliefs. embracing whatever you’re faced with is when you actually take one step closer to success.

Conclusion: The Power of Choice

Our choices mean a great deal when it comes to the thought of life-altering decisions. Remember that the choice is always ours. We can either change it all by choosing discomfort or we can stay as we are. It is entirely up to us to choose growth over peace, hard work over comfort, the ability to question over staying ignorant, fact over fiction, and control over chaos. It all depends on our power of choice.