How do you keep taking action when the inspiration goes, because it will?
Doing anything well requires a great deal of effort. Typically, we set goals for ourselves, perhaps out of impulse or maybe in a moment of clarity and set off to accomplish them. At the moment of initiation, inspiration and visions of success are sufficient motivation to prompt action. Days or weeks later, mired in the slog that is a necessary stage of all accomplishment, the doubts and voices raise their heads in unison.
Successful people have a reserve of will that kicks in at this moment of low tide. Instead of having a pity party about how hard a particular goal is to accomplish, these folks seem to plow right through the difficult terrain. What is that will? For me, it is knowledge of accomplishments past. Success builds on success. In my moments of doubt, I turn to things that I know I do well and I do them. I usually get enough of a recharge to set off with renewed vigor on my new adventure.
This morning, I am heading to the shop to make things.
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