Hey Psych2Goers, welcome back to our channel. Have you ever wanted to impress your crush? If only they saw some of your great qualities, they may just like you. But how can you get them to notice you first? Here are just a few psychological ways to impress your crush. 1. Go on an adrenaline-boosting date In a famous 1973 study on the psychology of attraction, psychologists Donald Dutton and Arthur Aaron had an attractive female experimenter ask male subjects between the ages of 18 to 35, a series of questions. The experimenter showed each subject an ambiguous image and asked them to tell a story about what could be taking place in the picture. But half of the men had to cross a high rickety bridge, while the other half crossed a stable and low bridge. At the end of the questionnaire, the woman then gave each man her phone number and said they could call her if they had any questions about the study. The men on the unstable, adrenaline-inducing bridge wrote stories on their questionnaire that included more sexual content and imagery than those on the lower bridge. And only two out of the 16 subjects who went over the low, stable bridge called the female experimenter back, while half of those who crossed the high, scary bridge called the woman after the experiment was finished. Researchers Dutton and Aaron theorized that the scary bridge created feelings of arousal in subjects. This misattributed this arousal as feelings for the attractive female experimenter. So if someone goes on an exciting, adrenaline-inducing date, they may turn these feelings to you and want to pursue you more. Number two, on a coffee date, order a warm beverage. According to researchers Lawrence E. Williams and John A. Barg, experiencing physical warmth can encourage interpersonal warmth. For their experiment, subjects held warm and cold beverages while discussing another group of people. The participants who held iced beverages were much more ruthless and cold in describing the other group. Those who held the warm drink judged others as having a warmer personality, believing they were more caring and generous. The research study states, experiences of physical temperature per se affect one's impressions of and prosocial behavior toward other people, without one's awareness of such influences. The findings are in agreement with emerging knowledge about the role played by the insula in both the sensation of one's physiological state, such as skin temperature, and the detection of the trustworthiness of others. So when it comes to picking a first date, take your crush out to a cozy place that's warm and remember, order coffee or cocoa. Number three, buy them a gift that you own as well. So you're thinking about gifting something to your crush, huh? Well, if you do decide to gift your special someone something, give yourself the same present as well. Researchers Evan Pullman and Sam Jay McLeo call this gift giving behavior companionizing. In their study, they found that an individual is more likely to feel closer to their gift givers if they give them something they own as well, whether it's a pair of matching sweaters or a favorite CD you also own. Give them something you have too. Not only will they enjoy their gift more knowing someone out there has another part of it, but they may just feel closer to you as well. Number four, be humorous. Everyone loves to laugh, so why not bring the humor to the table on your next date? According to what is known as the humor effect, generally people will have an easier time remembering information they perceived as humorous as opposed to info they don't find funny. Well, next time you tell your date why the chicken crossed the road, she may not only remember that dear old chicken, but she may just remember you a bit more too. There is still continuous research needed on the benefits of humor and the humor effect in its relation to memory. But it certainly won't hurt next time you bust out a good joke. Humor increases energy levels, lowers our negative emotions, and it may just make your crush more interested in what you say. Number five, buy them some food. According to a study published in the journal Frontiers of Psychology, giving your crush some food may just make them feel something more free. Researchers Murt E. Hamburg, Katerine Finkner, and Carlo Schungel theorize that food offering provides a way of coping with distress and empathetic concern, as well as an effective means of offering social support, resulting in increased positive effect across interaction partners and an increase in interpersonal closeness. So next time you see them, pour them some hot cocoa and share that chocolate close-up of yours. They may just like you more for it and see you as having a warmer personality too. Number six, compliment others. One way to impress your crush is to show them how kind you are to others. You are kind to others, right? When we speak of others in a positive light, people will associate the traits we use to describe that person with ourselves. This often occurs when we talk about someone in a positive way to someone else. This is called spontaneous trait transference, and it occurs when communicators are perceived as possessing the very traits they describe in others. According to researchers, Skalronsky, Carlston, May, and Crawford, and according to several studies published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the researchers found that when we describe someone with a certain trait to another person, that person will associate us with the trait described. So next time you notice something great about your friend Billy, make sure to let your crush know how great Billy is. I mean, as long as Billy isn't across a high and unstable bridge, holding a warm cup of coffee and a bag of croissants. Oh, he is? Dang, flabbit Billy. So how will you impress your crush? Which of these psychological studies did you find most interesting? Will you use them? Let us know in the comments down below. If you enjoyed this video, don't forget to click the like button and share this video with a friend, or maybe your crush. So subscribe to Psych2Go and hit the notification bell icon for more content like this. And as always, thanks for watching.


Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We're looking at more price predictions today for some of the starter team, OPB, some of those more starter squad type players that you guys have been sending me in your starter squads that you are planning to buy in the first couple of days or first week or so inside of FIFA 21 Ultimate Team. And so I want to take a look today at some of the price predictions for some of these players who might be a bit cheaper, but great starter squad material, but also still overpowered, still really good cards that you want to get in your starter teams and that might be really good in FIFA those first couple of weeks. So I'm going to use some knowledge of last year's FIFA, knowledge of just how more overpriced the Premier League could be this year and meta cards from last year with their hype could be. And that's all going to factor into some of these price predictions today as we look at these FIFA 21 cards. Now we do have the top 1,000 ratings. I'll leave the link to that down below if you want to look at all these ratings in the description. But first things first, Alan St. Maxim, right? The Prem has tons of left mids this year. Left wings, we've talked about this. This guy is still going to be expensive. He's still going to be very overpowered. Five star skills, four star weak foot. Last year, this car was on the right side. He was extinct at 10,000 coins for a week almost and then got upgraded, went up to 20K and then quickly fell down after that. But I think this year, this card moving to the left, he is a bit more well known. I don't think his price is going to be that different though because yes, he is the five star skills, four star weak foot. I don't think he's going to be anywhere over 35 or 40,000 coins. Maybe a little bit more than last year, but not a crazy high amount just because there's so many left mids in the Prem where people could go ahead and buy somebody like Zaha, buy somebody like Burgwein, buy somebody like Marcus Rashford. He was going to be a bit more expensive than St. Maximon, but there's so many more options on that left side, Felipe Anderson, another one that I think his price might be kept in check a little bit because of all those. So I'm saying somewhere between 30 and 40K as the peak for St. Maximon and then just like we saw last year, his card is going to fall off but I feel like it's going to maintain its price for a bit longer than he did last year because I mean, last year, it took him a month to go from 10K all the way down to 3K. I would still expect this card to be somewhere around the 5, 6, 7K range a month after the game comes out. So that's St. Maximon. A lot of people are wanting him in their squads. Let's go to Edder Milletow. Another card just like last year, almost the same rating, slight downgrade on this card. He's going to be very meta again. He's going to be very good. Great links, Real Madrid, Brazilian. Last year, his card at the early game for the first two or three weeks, actually about the first month, he was around starting 15,000 coins all the way up to about 28K, fluctuating on those weekend league days when you see these cards kind of boost up the most as people buy them for the weekend league and the first couple of weekend leagues. I think this card is going to be about the same price this year unless the pack weight changes for whatever reason. He's probably going to be somewhere around that 20 to 30K range inside that first month of FIFA 21 Ultimate Team just like he was last year, just because he's such a very well-known centerback. This is an interesting one, man. This guy has got so much freaking hype and this is like, I'm going to talk about a few cards that we're going to look at some of these prices. This dude is in so many concept squads. It's ridiculous. Marcus Llorente with one of the biggest upgrades, three star, three star, great looking CDM or center mid card in FIFA. Like the in-game stats look fantastic as well. Agility and balance, you're not that worried for a CDM center mid. Lot of great links for this guy being Athletico Madrid and being Spanish. I think this card is going to be used for the first month or so of foot. It all depends on if he's very good in game but I think the hype alone is going to drive this card up over 20, 25,000 coins in the first two weeks if he sucks in game because we haven't really used this card before. Like he's not really ever been considered good enough to be meta. Then if he's good enough to 25K in the first couple weeks if he is that good, maybe he goes to 35,000 coins after that but he's 82 rated so he's going to continue to get packed. People are going to move on to better players. I don't think this guy goes much higher than 25K in those first couple weeks but he has a lot of hype man. I've seen this card in so many concept squads. It's ridiculous. Let's keep moving to another very popular starter squad player, Colosterman, all right. This again, I talked about it on my live stream yesterday. This card reminds me of Joe Gomez from last year. Going to like six, seven K during the EA access time period and then as everybody else gets on the game in early access and the full game coming out, this guy is not going to be staying in people's teams for long. They're going to upgrade to Lucas Hernandez, Jerome Boatang, cards like that, center backs in the Bundesliga or even better center backs in those cards. I think this guy will probably settle around the 10 to 15K range. I think he's going to be that expensive. I see him in a lot of concept squads. He's getting a lot of hype with his pace, with his work rates, with his build in game. He'd be pretty good at, you know, six foot two with 82 jumping. He could probably get up for a lot of those balls. If heading is a thing that you have to try to defend against, you need taller defenders. He'll be decent at that. So yeah, 10 to 15,000 coins in the first couple of weeks for this card and then dropping off sharply after that because people are going to be upgrading the guys like Diego Carlos to Joe Gomez this year, 83 rated. Again, Lucas Hernandez, Boatang, you know, those more upper echelon center backs in the game. People will be upgrading past the card like this in like two weeks, man. That's how fast things move in the beginning. So they had 10 to 15K for that card. I don't really expect anything higher. Here's another card that I see a lot, right? I see a lot of Zakaria and Babu and Akaji little triangles. That's like one of the most popular triangles that I think I've seen. This card is very interesting because last year he had almost the exact same stats. Like he got a plus five upgrade on his overall card stats, 78 to 83. And he got plus twos and plus threes and even some plus ones in his individual stat upgrade. So I think this card is almost the same as his 78 rated last year. Packweight's gonna be a lot different. He's gonna have a lot of hype this year as well. This card, Zakaria last year with even 6,000 coins for that first week until the full game came out, came out. I'm expecting this guy to be about double that this year. 10, 15, 20,000 coins at his very max. And that's only because his rating has gone up and that's gonna make his pack weight less. That's the only difference I see between this card this year and his card last year, but it is gonna make him a bit more expensive. And people are gonna use this card for more than just the first two weeks. Like this card has a good enough stat kind of quality and stat categories that probably last people a month or so as we get into like Black Friday and that kind of thing. So he's not very linkable. That's the only issue. So if you're trying to upgrade your team, it's gonna be kind of hard unless you're running a full bunded side with Zakaria. But again, probably somewhere in between like 15, 20,000 coins is where I see this dude at.  So it's still kind of hard to link unless you use that triangle trio that a lot of people are gonna use. But he's gonna have hype early game. He's in so many starter teams. Now maybe moving up a little bit in terms of what players costs are gonna be at the start of the game, Gabriel J. Zeus. We have less Premier League strikers this year in the game that we had last year. Think about last year we had Lucas Mora as a striker center forward. We had Rashford as a striker center forward. They have moved to left mid, right mid. Those two guys, we had Sun. He's a left mid this year. We had Zaha. He's a left mid this year. That's kind of opening up the territory I think for some of these other Premier League strikers. Now of course we do have Timo Werner that has come in. We have Rodrigo that have come into the Prem with transfers. I expect Gabriel J. Zeus to be more expensive this year because of Brazilian links, especially to a guy like Lucas on the right side who I think is gonna be very OP. A lot of people are gonna try to use him. And maybe on the left side, maybe not like a Philippe Anderson would be a good link up to a Gabriel J. Zeus.  A lot of people are doing 4-3-3 for their starter squads because the links are easy. And Gabriel J. Zeus will get a nice strong link to the new Everton Allen card, which we'll talk about in a second. So I'm thinking this card, he was 40,000 coins last year. I'm feeling 50, 60, maybe even upwards of 70,000 coins at his peak in the first couple of weeks. This is gonna be a card that like last year he's gonna follow the same trend. If we take a look at his card from last year, he started low and then obviously boosted up big time. He was 19,000 coins day one and ended up being around 40,000 coins inside that first month before he started to really go downwards in price. This is probably what his graph is gonna look like this year as well. But I think he goes higher. I think he starts off at like 25, 30,000 coins and then ends up at like around the 50, 60, maybe even 70K range if he's really OP in game. The only problem is, and this is a very common problem with Premier League strikers in FIFA 21 so far, is the weak foot. Only a three star weak foot. Marsh y'all's got a three star weak foot as well. That's kind of this card's main competition. I guess you could say as like the middle tier striker between still pretty meta, not that cheap, but not, you know, Aguero or Bomb Yang or Werner or any of those guys. So again, 70K max for this card in my opinion in the first couple of weeks. Now let's talk about Allen, right? Because Allen is in a very interesting scenario, right? This card is probably gonna get a ones to watch which makes his gold card something that a lot of people are going to want to invest in in those first couple of days of web app and of EA access before the OTW promo actually starts early game. So this card's price is going to get artificially inflated in those first couple of weeks, in the first week, honestly, on basically a week from yesterday when the web app's gonna come out. On Wednesday of next week, when the web app comes out, you're gonna see this guy's price probably around like the 20K range, maybe 30,000 coins with his transfer. Even though he's lower rated, he's still a really, really good card and a lot of people are pumped to use him as a midfielder this year in the prem as a CDM. He's a FIFA favorite from years past and I think that's gonna continue on this year, especially being in the Premier League and being Brazilian. Last year, he peaked at 68,000 coins, 68K for this card last year. Now of course, again, his rating is lower but if he gets a ones to watch, it all depends on what his price max and his price range is set to because I could see a card like this if EA are not smart and they set the max price at 50,000 coins, he could be extinct at 50,000 coins in that first week as people try to invest in his card. Could he go higher than that after a price range update? If they update the price range while his OTW is in packs and this gold card is not getting supplied, I would expect his ones to watch to be probably like 200,000 coins or so because he's playing for Everton.  So maybe 150K for the ones to watch but then his gold card is probably gonna get up there like 70, 80K if EA would update the price range in my opinion. So this card is gonna be a big question mark for me. If you wanna buy this card for your team, I would say either buy it as early as you possibly can before his price gets too inflated because going out of packs for possible ones to watch or wait until it kinda comes back down after that first month or so and then you'll be getting him at a much more reasonable price but Alan's gonna be one to watch, no pun intended, just with his price in terms of a lot of demand for that kind of card, a lot of great links and of course being in the Premier League, everybody wants him and that just causes some natural price inflation on a card like that anyway. So moving on, another cheap beast, Richarlison and why is he a cheap beast this year? He got that position change, all right? This is huge, a five star weak foot striker in the Prem. Now of course his statistics aren't wowing, he's not gonna be the most meta, of course, off the bat, but his team of this season last year in FIFA, I think he had an in form as well in FIFA 20, got a lot of publicity and a lot of hype and I think that's gonna continue this year as well. This card's gonna be very good in the early game, I think and I'm honestly, I don't feel like I'm too far off here. I'm using Callum Wilson as an example from last year. Callum Wilson is always expensive. Last year it was like seven, eight, 9,000 coins in the first couple, in the first week or so of FIFA 20, I kind of expect this card this year to be even more than that. I could very easily see 10K in the first couple of days, maybe even rising like 15, sort of inching towards 20K, probably that's too much though because why would you pay 20K for this card when you could go pay 50K for Gabriel J. Zeus and get a lot better dribbling and pace? But again, people love that five star weak foot so I don't think 20K is anywhere out of the realm of possibility depending on some of the other Brazilian links. Again, that's a perfect link to Alan, that's a strong link to Lucas, a strong link to Gabriel J. Zeus if you're running a two striker formation. So, Brazilian links are huge once again for this card. I've seen him in a lot of starter teams. Don't be surprised if he goes 15, 20,000 coins in the first week or so, honestly, with the amount of teams that I'm seeing him in and just kind of the place that this card has in FIFA as like a good budget, cheap, Premier League striker in this game. Moving on to maybe another more higher tier card, Diego Carlos, 83 rated this year. Got a lot of hype last year with his road to the final and of course, his team in the season. I'm expecting this card fully to be over 50,000 coins off the rip. I know that seems a bit expensive to me but I feel like the hype, him with Milletown together in a back line is what a lot of people are gonna be trying to upgrade towards. This is a card's price that I would see gradually rising over the first two weeks, maybe even rising a little bit for the first week in league, staying high for almost the first month or so before starting to kind of come down as an 83 rated card because where do you upgrade from Diego Carlos, right? You upgrade to Iran, you upgrade to Ramos and you upgrade to Langley, maybe, depending on how OP they are in game. This card is very OP in game. It's got a four star weak foot as well which is honestly pretty impressive for his center back. So I'm a big fan of this card this year. I think he's gonna be 60, 70,000 coins. 75K would be like kind of my more max price for him in that first month. But I think he's gonna be very good in game and he's got the great links. A lot of people are even talking about linking him to that Kunde card or to the right back. Jesus Navas, right? Is that the guy? Maybe that's right. But anyways, that's gonna be like a 75K card at the max in my opinion. Who's the Navas right back? What is the Navas? Is it Jesus Navas? Yeah, Jesus Navas right back card which by the way, I don't think this card looks that good to me. But he has pace and he's got defensive stats. He does not have, he does not have physicality though. That's the only issue. 39 strength dude. This guy's a toothpick. All right, so don't use Jesus Navas. Use Kappa as your right back if you're doing La Liga until maybe we can get you Carval Hall or something like that. But yeah, see a lot of people are using this card. This is a thumbs down from me, bro. This one's a thumbs down from me because of that physicality. Anyways, I think that was it actually. If I was looking through some starter teams right here. Jalph Felix, again, I wanna kinda talk through this squad really fast. Some more starter players. Carrasco is probably gonna be 15, 20K at the start of the game, specifically because this link right here, these two guys together might run you almost 40, 50,000 coins between the two of them. I could see it because Carrasco's looking spicy. It's that link to Arente. That's very, very good. Coutinho's gonna be interesting this year as a position change. He's going to be more expensive. I would not be surprised if that's like 25,000 coins, maybe even 30K as well. Maybe even more than that because of Brazilian Barcelona links. Jalph Felix is probably gonna be 15 to 20K as he was kind of last year. Joaquin Correo will be a decent price. This is gonna be a good all-around box-to-box midfielder. This Hernandez card, Lucas Hernandez last year was crazy. He really boomed up because he got it once to watch. A lot of people weren't expecting that. This year he'll be a little bit cheaper in my opinion, but he's gonna be a great card for investing in as well.  But I really just wanted to bring you this video today to talk through a bunch of prices. So if you found it helpful, if you found it insightful in helping your FIFA 21 early game preparation, smash the thumbs up on the video. If you did enjoy it, again, please do that. I would greatly appreciate it. Comment down below if you disagree with any of these price predictions or if you wanna see any more videos like this. There's a lot of cards out there that you guys are seeing and of course, if you're building your squads, you might wanna know what they cost. So I can give my two cents on those if you wish. Drop those guys in the comments and of course, subscribe to the channel for new boys. It's been Nate, The Foot Accountant. I will catch you guys later. Peace out.


I'm still just a little bit confused about what changed between 1 p.m. on Friday and around 4 30 p.m. on Friday to go from we're not raising the refugee cap to we are raising it by May 15 what what changed in those three and a half hours well I think as I was just outlined we never said we're not raising the refugee cap in the morning we said actually and what the information we put out was that once we reach 15,000 we will raise it that was not accounted for and some of how people were a diet let me finish some of how people were digesting the information and we wanted to be clear and send a message that we are a country that is welcoming refugees let's be clear we are changing the policies of the last administration we are changing the policy of not welcoming in people from Africa or people from the Middle East that was the biggest factor preventing refugees come from coming in during the last administration so are you saying this had nothing to do with the push back from some Democrats on Capitol Hill from Senator Dick Durbin to Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez I don't think you've articulated to me what our change in policy was what was our change in policy from the morning to the afternoon executive order from Friday morning said that the admission of up to 15,000 refugees remains justified period and yes there was a caveat that you could raise that cap later but I mean it expressively pretty important caveat that if we when we reach 15,000 a subsequent presidential determination could be made and again the biggest challenge the biggest challenge but the biggest the biggest challenge because people weren't understanding what we were conveying to the public and weren't conveying what we're trying to project to countries around the world and it's incumbent upon us to make sure there's an understanding of what the president's policies are what he's trying to achieve and what he feels morally is that we're going to welcome in refugees from around the world change the policies from the past administration that where they were not welcoming in refugees from the Middle East and Africa and that was important to him to take that first step and move it forward the line said the admission of up to 15,000 refugees remains justified and you understand how some people would interpret that well I think we all have a responsibility to provide all of the context and so what I'm conveying is that we also included what also is reached that a subsequent presidential determination would be issued to increase admissions and again the battle is not the cap the issue has been the limitations that have been put in place in the past we overturned those and change those and it was always meant to be a first step back to my other question has had anything to do with the pushback from Democrats on Capitol Hill I don't think you've articulated what our change in policy is so go ahead to do that that's well it is if you're asking a question I'm asking about the pushback from progressives on Capitol Hill what was our change from the morning to the afternoon the change from the morning to the afternoon was that you explicitly said the admission of up to 15,000 refugees remains justified and in the afternoon you said that the president would be raising the cap on or before May 15th in the morning we also said that if 15,000 is reached that a subsequent presidential determination would be issued to increase admissions that was not clearly understood we felt it was incumbent upon us to make sure people understood and we're clear that our objective was to welcome in more refugees and we remain committed. Hey welcome back everybody drone tech here I just want to remind you all that tonight April 20th at 8 p.m. eastern I'm going to be having a live discord debate on the topic of equality versus equity it's going to be a four-person panel with Robert Noor, me, Sondasol and liberal cluck we're also going to have a guest moderator Samantha Banana I think it's going to be a really interesting debate because the left really seems to be in using government to enforce what they call equity and I think it's a big change from what they used to talk about they used to talk a lot about equality but it turns out equality is hard because it also consists of the freedom not only to succeed in the freedom of opportunity but the freedom of failure instead the left now apparently wants to use the power of government to enforce outcome a place where motivation creativity and innovation are dead and mediocrity reigns so it should be really interesting I invite you all to come and watch at some point in the night we're going to bring in discord users to chime in and give their opinions as well you can find all the relevant links you'll need in the description and pin comment I'll see you all then


Hello, hello, writers. I'm Kristin Kiefer, author of fantasy fiction and creative writing resources, and you are listening to the Well-Sturried podcast, where I share insights, encouragement, and actionable advice designed to help you craft sensational novels and build your best writing life. Always in 30 minutes or less, so you can get back to writing, of course. Ready for the show? Let's get talking. Hello, hello again, writers, and thank you so much for joining me for today's episode of the Well-Sturried podcast. Today is Thursday, August 5th, 2021, and as you might be able to guess from the title of today's episode, we are talking about how to maintain momentum in your writing practice. This is something that I have long struggled with in my writing life. I am not naturally a workaholic, and I've spent a good amount of time and effort over the past several years really working to build good habits when it comes to my writing practice. I'm still working on this. I don't going to be perfect, but I have picked up a lot of tips and tricks and techniques and tools and all the fun keywords for maintaining momentum that has really helped me write with more confidence, more focus, and most importantly, more consistency. So without any further ado, let's dive into today's episode. If you would like to read along as you listen in, simply visit well-sturried.com-life to find the article that goes with today's episode. Alright, now let's dive in. Can you visualize an ideal day in your writing life? If you're like most writers, then I imagine that day looks something like this. You sit down with your beverage of choice, crack open your manuscript, and slip into an easy creative flow. Words fly from your fingertips as you lose yourself for hours in a deeply fulfilling and highly productive writing session. Isn't this how you imagine your writing practice should unfold? It's certainly the image that society has sold us concerning what a real writer's creative work should look like. But if that's the case, then what happens when you don't crank out words with ease? When writing proves painstakingly difficult. When you turn to avoidance and procrastination rather than doing the damn hard work. There must be something wrong with you, right? Maybe you aren't really cut out to be a writer. Maybe the writing life just isn't your calling. Maybe you should wallow in self-loathing for a while or just even quit the writing practice altogether. Do any of these thoughts sound familiar to you, writer? If so, then know that you aren't alone. It's only natural to experience doubts and fears when feelings of inadequacy come out to play. The good news is that you aren't any less of a writer for struggling to find your creative flow. Multiple studies show that fewer than 25% of long-distance runners experience the famed runners high. That is, the relaxing state of euphoria that can make it easy to run for miles. Yet no one would claim that runners who feel the burn of every step aren't, in fact, runners. So why should you call yourself anything less than a writer for finding difficulty and challenge in creative work?  Moreover, you can learn to find a sense of ease and momentum in your writing life even when the work itself isn't easy. To build this momentum, we must first ask an important question. Why do we procrastinate creative work in the first place? Allow me to reiterate that writing is often difficult. Those who claim otherwise are probably the type of writer who believes that their work is beyond reproach, and that's a shame. Because if you aren't willing to criticize your work or have others criticize it in return, then you're never going to experience growth in your craft. That said, writing shouldn't feel like constant torment either. We're not aiming for self-flagellation here. Our goal in seeking creative momentum is to develop the willingness, and dare I say, the desire, to write even when we know that writing may be difficult. Unfortunately, it's that knowledge that often leads us to procrastinate creative work. As humans, we are wired to choose the path of least resistance. If we are safe and fed and whole, then we aren't going to take any unnecessary risks. And writing? Writing puts our pride on the line. When creative work gets difficult, we tend to procrastinate the challenge rather than face it head-on, because our egos are terrified that we're going to embarrass ourselves. Their worst fear is that we're going to lose all sense of pride and dignity by proving to the world that we're incapable.  Even when we address these limiting beliefs in our writing lives, it can be difficult to overcome the urge to procrastinate because of what psychologists call the present bias. It's the human tendency to choose small, short-term gratification over bigger, long-term gratification. The present bias holds true for most people even when they know they'll be punished in some way for taking the easier reward. Unfortunately, this same principle applies to our writing lives. Most of us are more likely to watch another episode of our favorite TV show than sit down to write, even though we know we'll feel disappointed in ourselves for failing to put pen to paper. How, then, are we supposed to summon up the will to write even when we don't feel like writing? It's time to examine the myth of motivation. If you're in the habit of procrastinating difficult creative work, then there isn't going to come a day when you magically feel like writing. You may happen upon inspiration that momentarily motivates you to write, but you're unlikely to stay motivated for long. Why is that the case? Well, most people conflate motivation with desire. They want to feel like doing the thing they know they should do. But humans aren't wired to choose a challenge when there's an easier path to survival. The vast majority of us aren't going to feel like doing difficult creative work just because we can. We might momentarily have a reason for taking action, such as a shiny new story idea or a powerful pep talk from a fellow writer. But once that initial excitement and enthusiasm wears off, there's a good chance that we aren't going to feel like writing all over again. So how do we drum up the motivation to write? Well, we don't. As Jeff Hayden writes in the motivation myth, quote, motivation is not the cause of action. It is the result of action. End quote. When we sit down and do the damn hard work of writing, we cultivate a sense of pride and accomplishment that motivates us to keep on writing. We begin to view ourselves as capable of completing difficult creative work, which in turn helps us overcome our limiting beliefs and resist the powerful pull of our terrified egos. It's Newton's first law. An object in motion stays in motion. The trick, of course, is to get the ball rolling in the first place. So let's talk about how to build and maintain creative momentum. If you aren't going to feel like writing until you actually start writing, then how in the world are you supposed to summon up the will to get started? Let's take a look at three powerful tips. Tip number one, start a tiny habit. The easiest way to lower your resistance to difficult creative work is to first lower your self-imposed expectations. If writing for 30 minutes feels exhausting, then aim for 10 instead, or five, or one. Setting such a small goal for yourself might seem silly, but writing one word will always get you farther than writing none. In setting and achieving such a tiny goal, you'll begin to build the confidence and self-assurance that you need to slowly increase the scope of your new habit, ultimately helping you develop a consistent and productive writing routine. If you'd like to learn more about how to build tiny habits, we have an episode on this from the very beginning of 2021. So you can either scroll back to check that out, or head on over to well-story.com slash life to find the article that goes with that. That article and episode, by the way, are called the must-have foundation for any strong writing routine. Tip number two, trust the process. Even the act of writing a single sentence can feel like a monumental task when you pressure yourself to perfect every word. That's why trusting the process is key to building momentum in your writing life.  You can't create something incredible without first pulling that beat-up side table out of the junk heap at your local thrift store. That is your first draft. It's not pretty, and it's definitely not suitable for showing guests. But it's yours.  To build momentum in your writing life, you need to trust this same process. To be willing to let things look a little messy while you put in the elbow grease to transform them into something great. And finally, tip number three, focus on deep work. Popularized by Cal Newport in his book of the same name, the phrase deep work describes meaningful work completed in a flow state. Earlier, I said that it's rare for writers to experience a flow state in which words fly from their fingertips with ease. However, I do believe that anyone can learn how to accomplish difficult creative work with focus and efficiency. To achieve this type of deep work, first consider the environment in which you write best. Are you more focused and creative at a certain time of day or in a specific location? With a little music or complete silence. With a salty snack or a beverage at hand. Try to recreate this environment as often as possible. The second step to achieving deep work is to identify your purpose. Deep work is meaningful work. You should have a strong reason for wanting to complete it. As a writer, can you identify why you want to write? How about why you're working on your current work in progress? Finally, to set yourself up for a successful deep work session, ask yourself the following three questions each time you sit down to write. One, what project or part of my project do I want to focus on today? Two, how full is my creative tank? And three, what goal can I reasonably reach given the gas I've got? Sometimes your goal will be 20 minutes. Other days, it'll be two hours or more, but never mind the scope of your goal. What matters is that you build faith in your ability to complete difficult creative work by honoring your energy. After determining your goal for the day, lean into the work you've set for yourself. Give it everything you've got. By choosing challenge over comfort, you'll build the pride and momentum that you need to write again another day. Finally, take a moment to consider how you define your worth as a creative. In Built Your Best Writing Life, my self-development book for writers, I discussed the importance of finding pride in the effort you put into your creative work rather than the output you produce. While work count goals can be a healthy form of pressure for some writers, too many storytellers steep their self-worth in whether they're able to crank out 2,000 words every time they sit down to write. Frankly, it's unhealthy, toxic even. The fact of the matter is that you will always experience challenges in your writing life. Some scenes will be harder to write than others. Some days, you'll have more time and energy to give to your work. Whatever the case, flexibility is key to weathering creative turbulence and maintaining the momentum you need to keep on writing. So recognize that all progress is good progress and give your writing your best, no matter what life throws your way. I can't wait to see where your newfound momentum will take you, writer. Thank you for listening to today's episode of the Podcast Writer. I hope you found it helpful to your writing journey. If so, make sure to subscribe to the podcast so you never miss a new episode and to give the podcast a quick rating or review. Doing so goes a long way toward helping the podcast reach new writers and lets me know that you're enjoying what I'm creating. You can also give me a shout-out directly on Instagram at christen underscore keeper. For additional guidance as you work to craft sensational novels and build your best writing life, be sure to head on over to www.well-storied.com where I share blog posts, workbooks, e-courses and other helpful resources for writers. Again, that's W-E-L-L-S-T-O-R-I-E-D.com. Thank you again for tuning into today's episode, my friend. Until next time, happy writing!


Well, yeah, do I have something there we go well what do we have today if you've been listening to my show kind of what I was thinking was going to happen. I may have not traded it as correctly as I could but mostly because I was worried exactly what is happening today would happen and that is that we get a bounce on very light volume so far. Let's go back and look at it here. We're doing about 6.3 billion shares on the CBOE consolidated tape. You know you really needed to be about this time doing about eight eight and a half billion shares so we're going to have a very long light volume pop up and if you've also listened to my show I talk about a pattern that is one that is I'm going to say a big percentage of my winnings in the stock market when it happens and that is the double repo pattern whether using a nine day moving average or a three by three displaced moving average which I think is a little bit better. The idea is you have a bunch of days where you go straight up or straight down. You have a little hitch. Now if you're going to have ABC's those ABC and big moves higher tend to be you know like a three eight two retracement or something like that so you pull back maybe 40 percent of the move up higher and then you continue to go high up the more bearish which a lot of people think is actually bullish because it doesn't feel like anything's happening is a mild pullback and then a pushback higher but without the volume. So we've got something that kind of looks like that we've had a lot of push higher a little bit of a pullback and of course now we're going higher on lighter volume. We get another day or two of that and then the next move down generally is the one that is the sole crushing one. No confirmation on that yet. Storm clouds are there. Be back. The reality is that navigating financial markets can be risky. Markets can.