Can't stick to things

lietruth · 2017-01-09T10:04:59+00:00

Just finished a book that really hit home on this subject. It's called "The War of Art". Essentially you're letting resistance overcome you.

You're afraid of succeeding. So you protect yourself by never finishing or sticking to anything. When you never finish you cant fail or succeed. You protect yourself from change (positive or negative) in the process.

It's not a two line solution on TRP. You need to work at this & figure out why you have this barrier.

Read the book.

mattizie · 2017-01-09T12:15:02+00:00

Cause OP can't format for shit, nor edit his post.

For ever since I can remember I've had trouble continually doing things I start. Whatever I start I just can't seem to stick with it. I've tried many different things and some of them I actually like but have stopped for some reason.

It's a problem I've had since childhood and I'm not sure if it's just a lack of discipline or if something deeper lies underneath. I would like some advice on how to stop this behavior.

TheStumblingWolf · 2017-01-09T12:06:56+00:00

I struggled with the same problem. What I did was a lot of thinking. I arrived at the fact that many of the things I thought I wanted I didn't really care that much about. How many times do you hear people say something like "I should learn to play bass, it'd be so cool". They're focused on the image they'd get if they did learn it, but they're not really that interested in doing the work. I had many things like this and I decided to pick 2 hobbies that mattered to me and disregard anything else. What this did was that I didn't feel bad for not being productive with the things I wasn't doing anyway, and I became more productive with the things I actually cared about. My main hobby is now something I don't really think about as work. I just do it more or less automatically.

Title	Can't stick to things
Author	-SkylIghts-
Upvotes	1
Comments	6
Date	January 9, 2017 10:00 AM UTC (9 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/askTRP
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