June 22, 1941, exactly 79 years ago, saw the start of the largest military operation in history, code name Barbarossa. 3 million Third Reich soldiers and 600,000 Third Reich horses headed east and invaded Russia.
In spite of all that man and horse, it didn’t work out well for the Germans.
No surprise there. Just another instance of the most famous of the classic blunders of history:
“Never get involved in a land war in Asia.”
That line comes from a scene in The Princess Bride (book or movie), in which the Dread Pirate Roberts wins a deadly battle of wits.
He wins because he has spent the past few years building up an immunity to iocaine pwder, a colorless, odorless, instantly dissolving poison.
Which brings me to the inspirational pitch I want to make to you today:
It’s incredible what you can get used to, if you only start small enough and then build up.
Take for example, writing.
I started writing emails regularly about three years ago, At first, I did it only twice a week, and for another of my sites.
I then bumped up the frequency to three times a week. And then every day.
As of today, I’ve written 500+ emails for this list alone, and that’s in addition to hundreds (or thousands) of other emails I’ve written for clients, including several daily email lists I’ve worked on and continue to work on.
I would never have been able to put out this amount of content each day when I first started. But over the course of a few years, I slowly built up an immunity to it.
And so can you. If you get started now. And if you’re motivated enough to survive the deadly battle of wits that is the freelance copywriting marketplace.
But maybe you’re confused. I’ve referred several times to emails but this is a blog post. But it started out as an email, and as part of my daily email newsletter. If you’re interested, you can sign up for it here.