I had writer's block my entire life all the way up until two years ago and in this short video I'm going to share with you how I overcame this decades-long writer's block. So here's what happened. I started to share little quick video tips or tips from about business and marketing, authentic business, authentic marketing on my dog walks and I'm on the dog walk right now. I don't know where my dog buddy is, he's exploring the bushes around here and when I got home and uploaded the videos I thought to myself, you know some of my audience members are going to want to read what I said instead of take time to watch the videos. So out of a sense of courtesy I just quickly typed out, okay, this is basically this is what I said in the video. If you don't feel like you have time to watch it, it's what I said. So out of that casual attitude of just you know basically this is what I said. This is not it's not a blog post that I would feel intimidated by or I'm not trying to write a book. I'm just casually summarizing some of the things I said in the video and maybe adding on some other additional thoughts. And I started doing these videos, I made a commitment to myself to do them Monday through Friday. This was back in 2015 when I did a five days a week and my audience would start expecting these things and I started writing what I said in the videos because some of them don't want to watch it. They want to read it. So based on doing that I overcame my writer's blog and I started noticing after a while that wow it's much less resistance now to writing. I got into this rhythm, gotten this groove. And so let me share with you I guess the lessons from that and before I do there's my dog buddy. Mining his own business. So the lessons are this. You I believe and everyone can overcome come writers block by doing it in a consistent way starting with being casual about it. I think a lot of writers block is a sense of you know we grow up going to school where writing was such a big deal because if you didn't do good writing you would get a bad grade and so we would feel anxious that we were performing essentially in our writing versus just trying to communicate something. I mean for example when you when you write emails to your friends or text messages you don't get writers block right you're just trying to communicate something you're maybe relating to them and connecting with them. That's it that's all we have to extricate ourselves from the performance mindset of writing and start thinking of it as a casual serving and connecting to others. That's all. Just sharing our ideas. I've also noticed that when a piece of writing that I do does well it's oftentimes not the writing itself that was brilliant. Oh my grandma was great or whatever. No it was just the ideas inside were were relevant to my audience and doesn't matter how my writing was they they appreciated the ideas and that's what made that piece of content go more viral than others. So don't worry about writing that's my biggest tip for you is to start doing it on a consistent basis from a casual attitude of just connecting and serving and you'll overcome your writer's block and a couple other things now put more in the description of this video is that how do how do I motivate my how did I motivate myself there are eight motivational methods which I'll link to in the description of this video but I used two of the eight for overcoming my writer's block I used public accountability and I used a regular calendar now you don't have to use these two you can use the other six if that makes more sense to you but this is what I did public accountability meaning my audience started to expect that I would be publishing a video every Monday through Friday this was back in 2015 now I only do it three times a week but they expected that and then for each video many of them wanted to just read it so that was public accountability that really motivated me and then the other thing was having a calendar to say all right basically 8.30 to 9 am each morning is when I write my videos I write and publish my videos because I already made the videos earlier so like earlier during the weekend so I hope this helps again I'll I'll I'll link to the other motivational methods inside the description of this video and just know that no matter how long you've had writer's block you can overcome it as well if you're willing to if you're willing to do it you absolutely could I thought I could never could but I actually did and it surprised me so that's why I I hope this is helpful for you as well I'm George Cowell and always open to your questions and comments and until the next video I wish you optimism and hope that you can overcome writer's block and have that means of communication as a regular way to connect and serve your audience be well