You’re going to get beat down. You’re going to realize that maybe this isn’t your “thing”. You’re going to struggle with what to do next and where to go from here. You’re going to have to decide what to do. Inspiration doesn’t come from thinking about what was. It comes from moving forward, from picking yourself up, from figuring out what is next on your list. That’s how you find that lost spark to give…
Or fear of what the blank page might render to you? Better to look at something that is a mess, doesn’t look right, or feels off, then nothing at all.
If everything around you is based upon the perfect conditions unfolding. It will never happen. Find a problem, build a solution, in the worst of conditions. Then you’ll know it can survive the worst of it and still be successful.
Plans only work if you can keep implementing them. If you’re constantly re-iterating them, always rebuilding them, disrupting them like they never existed… well then they aren’t plans. There just… what was written down today, for you to maybe consider looking at tomorrow but there is no need to follow or adhere to them.
When starting a new project it’s almost as though you need someone standing over your shoulder going – “Smaller”. And then you make things a bit smaller. And then they say – “Focus it down more” And then you focus your intent a bit more. And then they say – “Get rid of the extra and minimize it.” And then you take away all the bells and whistles. And then they say – “What’s left…