O.K. I have a confession to make. I’m stuck! I got so excited about this challenge that I forgot to take my own advice, I picked a date I thought would work without ever running it through my own schedule. Does this ever happen to you? You book a meeting just to realize that is the day you scheduled a few hours off, or you agree to a dinner party and then remember that you are always totally bagged on Friday nights after a long week of work, or you finally book that massage or night out and then notice the big red circle on your calendar that says “parent teacher night”?
There will always be reasons not to exercise, take time for yourself, write your novel, go back to school, or update your resume.
Today, I willed inspiration to come to me…I waited and waited and waited. It was during a conversation with a young student who was also waiting for motivation to strike that I realized that we can get ourselves into big trouble when we wait until we feel like doing something. During this waiting period our inner critics can kick up a lot of excuses and convince us to give up all together.
So whenever you run into trouble scale back, make it manageable, work out for just 5 minutes, eat one apple, write 1 word, don’t bite one nail, open your school books.
Employ a “micro movement” a realistic and fun plan for getting started on a big goal which comes from the wildly creative SARK and her book ”Make Your Creative Dreams Real: A plan for procrastinators, perfectionists, busy people, avoiders and people who would rather sleep all day”.
Writers write, athletes work out, helpers help, parents parent…even when we don’t feel like it. Even your smallest efforts can make a difference.
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.- Mother Teresa
