"It’s easy to keep things as they are and people tend to be resistant to change, especially large change. Starting is change. You have to context switch and build momentum from nothing."
Hit the nail on the head with this and most people would rather avoid starting than actually just beginning. Sometimes it is better to wait to start when you are "ready" to; however, that day may never come if you keep putting it off "for a rainy day."
For me, I just charge into it headfirst because, otherwise? I might never start...fighting my mind and myself is my own, personal battle. Guess what, though? As soon as I begin, I instantly feel better. That's just me.
Great read and glad you are venturing back into other creative outlets, be it painting, landscaping, etc. Do it when ya feel the inspiration or simply do it when ya bored. Post on. Reading in the shadows...
Thanks a bunch. Yea, that feeling of relief (for lack of a better word) is super real for me too. It’s weird how I can know this and still keep struggling with it.
Amen!! I stumbled across this article as I’m doing something new that I’ve never done before (drawing in public at the airport). So it helped. Thanks!
Honestly can’t express how happy that makes me.
"It’s easy to keep things as they are and people tend to be resistant to change, especially large change. Starting is change. You have to context switch and build momentum from nothing."
Hit the nail on the head with this and most people would rather avoid starting than actually just beginning. Sometimes it is better to wait to start when you are "ready" to; however, that day may never come if you keep putting it off "for a rainy day."
For me, I just charge into it headfirst because, otherwise? I might never start...fighting my mind and myself is my own, personal battle. Guess what, though? As soon as I begin, I instantly feel better. That's just me.
Great read and glad you are venturing back into other creative outlets, be it painting, landscaping, etc. Do it when ya feel the inspiration or simply do it when ya bored. Post on. Reading in the shadows...
Thanks a bunch. Yea, that feeling of relief (for lack of a better word) is super real for me too. It’s weird how I can know this and still keep struggling with it.
Learning as we go is both half the fun and half the battle