Motivation, inspiration, and creativity are resistance in disguise.
If you wait to be motivated to start going, you won’t get far.
If you wait for inspiration to struck before doing meaningful work, you’ll soon be out of a job.
If creativity is what you seek when sitting down to write, the page will stay empty most of the time.
There is nothing sudden in people’s achievements, no overnight success will surprise you.
Go do what you are supposed to. Every day.
We are all subject to similar stimuli. Stress, frustration, love, anger, disappointment, desire, need, anticipation, exhaustion, fear, failure, envy.
Two things matter.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Viktor E. Frankl
To stop you from checking emails when you are not supposed to, think about the following.
Are you checking because you can take a meaningful action or out of curiosity?
If knowing the content of a mail now changes the way you act (compared to what you’d do if you would check at the appropriate time), that is a meaningful action.
In all honesty, there are very few cases where this is true.
Our opinion is not stronger if we share it now or tomorrow. Hearing some feedback is not going to make us change now, and probably it won’t tomorrow. Checking now if that email we have been waiting for has finally arrived is not going to give us a headstart on tomorrow’s work.
More often, it’s curiosity that drives us. It’s the dopamine hit we get from knowing something, even though it does not affect our possibility to do something about it. It’s like scrolling your social media timeline out of boredom.
We can train at keeping that impulse under control.
Getting in a practice of doing makes you fall in love. With the comfort, with the routine, with the known, with the already done.
You can nurture that relationship for a while. It’s a way to build stronger foundations and reliable habits. But at some point you have to say goodbye as you move on to the next stage. Not too far away, still close to the practice. Forward.
Do. Over and over again. Then stop, assess the situation, see if you are where you are supposed to be. And take a step in the right direction.
Repeat.
How many tools are you going to try before accepting that there is something deeper that needs to be addressed?
How many platforms will you sign up for before accepting that you can write also on a piece of paper?
How many videos will you consume still before accepting that it is not only by watching others performing that you will improve your skills?
How many people will you have to hire before accepting that it is the lack of a system that’s hindering your growth?
How many courses are you going to enroll for before accepting that you can learn by doing, for free, every day?
How many applications will you have to send it before accepting that it is your story you have to work on?
First get the basics in place, then worry about the embellishments.
We too often get stuck pretending that it works the other way around.
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