I’ve been bouldering on and off for the better part of the year now.
And there’s so much cool stuff to learn. Things that would’ve never crossed my mind.
I used to look at people climbing stuff in movies or on YouTube videos and it all looked so simple. You grab something with your hand, then move up your legs, push on them, stand up, grab the next thing, rinse and repeat.
How hard could it really be?
Sure, you needed both stamina and muscle to hold yourself and push yourself repeatedly for a prolonged period of time. But to think of technique, body position, weight distribution, and a lot of other stuff simply never came to me as something you had to do.
Boy was I wrong.
So I’ve been learning a lot.
Figuring out all the techniques, practicing things over and over again, utilizing specific exercises to help reach specific goals.
There’s one “exercise” in particular that’s been really helpful for me.
And that’s trying to complete (or “send”) a problem as fast as possible. Get on the wall and just go. No thinking. No wasting time. No figuring stuff out, just go and keep it moving.
You might think this leads to all kinds of problems, but it’s quite the opposite actually.
One of the biggest problems of beginner climbers is thinking too much. Getting so stuck in your head that you fail to execute the right moves.
The thing is, our body is so advanced that if you just leave yourself to it, you’ll figure out what to do and how to move your body. It’s absolutely mind-boggling how fast the body adapts and just executes certain movements without us even thinking about it—without us even realizing it or even knowing why we do something.
You just do it instinctually.
That’s the purpose of the exercise.
If you’re going fast, you don’t have time to think. You have to rely on instinct, feel, and experience—a recipe for much smoother and better climbs.
And that’s not just applicable to bouldering.
It’s applicable to almost everything we do. Even email writing.
I get so many people asking me for tips or tricks about how to get faster at writing emails, how to create more content, or just how to get more stuff done throughout the day.
My answer?
Stop thinking so much.
You know what to do. You know how to write. You know how to tell a story—you’ve been doing so all your life already.
What’s holding people back is the fact that they’re thinking too much. “How do I transition to my sale?”, “Where should I start my story?”, “Is this worth including?”, “Is it better to write this in one paragraph or 2?”.
All these questions are robbing you of your productivity.
Just pick an idea and start writing. Just keep it going. Ramble on for a good 10 minutes. No stopping allowed.
At the end of those 10 minutes, you’ll have yourself a finished email.
Yes you might want to edit here and there. Clean up some of the blaring spelling mistakes you see, and round up the rough corners. But the biggest chunk of your writing is done.
It’s exactly how I wrote this email.
You learn a few base rules and just get to it. You keep climbing as fast as possible.
And talking about those base rules.
I teach those and much more about how to write extraordinary emails that make sales and keep your readers reading day after day in my flagship course, Email Extraordinaire.
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