What is thoughtwrestling? | Thoughtwrestling

Dear Thoughtwrestler:

I’m republishing this post, the first ever post at Thoughtwrestling, just as a reminder to both of us what this is all about.

Thanks for being here!

What is thoughtwrestling and why is it important to you? Read on…

Thoughtwrestling comes from the phrase wrestling with your thoughts, just like you might expect. But it doesn’t mean the same thing. Throughtwrestling is an active, positive verb. This blog, Thoughtwrestling, is an active, growing, positive resource to help people get outstanding, excellent, and remarkable things done.

When your thoughts wrestle with you

When a person is wrestling with their thoughts, it means that they are overwhelmed and panicked by the thoughts in their mind. Someone who is wrestling with their thoughts – or being crushed by them, depending on how you look at it – feels psychically blocked and unable to make progress. They feel scared, worried, and anxious.

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Above all, having your thoughts pin you down into an unbreakable hold is frustrating.

Sometimes it’s just a case of being overloaded. You may have too many ideas, too many concerns, and you don’t know how to figure out what will work and what won’t.

The road from beginning to end may seem impossible to travel when you are unable to focus your thoughts to take the steps you need to be successful.

Sometimes the world just makes things harder, too

Your life has an impact on your work which can make it harder to concentrate and create good things.

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Problems in these areas of your life can contribute to your thoughts’ ability to wrestle you down:

Work (when it’s especially stressful)
Family and friends (when you’re having problems with these relationships)
Health (just another thing to make it harder to get things done, right?)
Money (you can never get enough)
Organizations and institutions (they seem to exist to make themselves bigger and stronger, often at your expense)
The perceived threat of change (just when you’ve got it figured out, hey – it’s a new game and there’s no rulebook yet, if there ever will be)
Uncertainty or the unknown (you just don’t know what’s going to happen and it worries you)

Haven’t all of these things plagued us at one time or another?

It’s hard to do good work (especially complex stuff) even when you aren’t plagued by distractions. You need all the help you can get. You need effective approaches to solve problems and to get things done.

Great things happen when you thoughtwrestle ideas into shape

Thoughtwrestling, as we think of it, is the process of taking ideas, data points and opportunities (the politically correct word to use instead of problems) and turning them into projects, products, services, and solutions. On one hand, thoughtwrestling is devoted to creating new things. It’s also about problem solving. And, finally, it’s about self-actualization.

The ability to turn chaos into order is an invaluable skill.

So are:

the ability to solve problems;
to keep an open, creative mind;
and to keep your mind clear, orderly, and focused.

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This blog is a resource to help people who want to make things and to solve problems, especially problems related to creative projects, businesses, organizations, and work processes.

Are you struggling with the next step?
Are you stuck in an unproductive rut?
Do you need help with a project but you’re not sure where to go next?
Do your thoughts have you pinned down and are the other problems in your life loaded on top of the pile, making it impossible to get up and wrestle some projects into match-winning shape?

Take heart!

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We’re here to help you. We’ll be featuring articles, case studies, product reviews, and other valuable content to help you turn chaos into order. We will learn and practice the art and science of thoughtwrestling together. We will help empower you to do great work.

Welcome to Thoughtwrestling. We believe this is the start of something great and we’re so glad you’re with us at the start of this journey!

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