Of course this ties in with the bit around focus and won't obviously work if you say something bizarre like "I need a break every ten minutes to check out my Instagram feed.

When you’re feeling stuck, you’re not sure how to progress or those gremlins of self doubt are sitting on your shoulder, take a moment to focus on your intentions. If you don’t know anyone you could do a co-working session with, someone recommended Focus Mate to me where you essentially do this virtually with someone you don’t know! It’s a toxic recipe for keeping you small, keeping you blocked and keeping you from doing the things only you can do.

Instantly – before you’ve even got a single tip from this post – you’ve just massively increased your success with the things I’m about to share. That’s where a little more advanced accountability comes in and where the services of a mentor or a coach show their worth. The beauty of that is if you know these things have a good chance of happening, you can take action ahead of time to either prevent them or have a plan of action in place for when they do.

Your systems and infrastructure may be optimum to do the work, but the real work is putting the rubber on the road.

If you are a last minute do-er, a procrastinator, a putter-offer, then creating constraints may work for you too. We have been incredibly fortunate to feature incredible collaborations with creative superstars like Marsha Goelmac, Sean Fennessy, The 5 th and Jasmine Dowling.

Whenever you have something to get done, I can guarantee that someone you know if also trying to get shit done. The idea is that for five minutes, you do nothing but ask for support and for help - to the point that it becomes almost embarrassing. A way of getting rid of the overwhelm is to really break things down into small tasks you can do and use them as a checklist.If I’m dating a girl and she insists that we talk on the phone daily, I know that it’s a recipe for disaster.