More Effort Is Not The Solution Here’s What You Should Do Instead

Even though we hear it all the time, sometimes it just doesn’t feel possible.

We want to keep going but it just seems too hard to continue.

You know what I’m talking about, it’s the constant advice of “The journey is what matters”, and “You have to be willing to be uncomfortable to succeed”, and other quotes that seem great on paper, but do little to help when we aren’t feeling well about our progress.

When we aren’t enjoying what we are doing, nor seeing the results we want, there are no quick bits of advice that can get us out of that rut. It all seems irrelevant.

Even worse, is if we see people on the same path as us who are getting much better results. They’re winning and we are not.

Quite often this will bring feelings of inadequacy, frustration, overwhelm, and worst of all, the urge to either give up immediately or to double down on our efforts.

Regardless of your approach, both of these will take you right to where you started, one, immediately, the other, after a short burst of intensive work, giving a little more motivation, that most likely will go away pretty soon.

Normally, this would be the part of the article where someone would be telling you to just keep going, head…