Once you have overcome that initial inertia, the fear of starting something, the key thing is to keep going.
Most of the effort is at the front end, getting the thing ‘off the ground’. The keeping it up there is just a question of discipline and commitment.
Wow, that was easy to type, if only it was that easy, but remind yourself on the days that you feel the lull, feel like arghhh!!! today I just can’t do it, that you have built all that momentum, you have taken all those steps closer to your goal. Giving up would lead to the brakes going on and the need to start again.
Just look at the journey up to today, all those small steps you have done and repeated day after day, think about where you have come from when you started.
Anybody who has faced starting anything worthwhile, something that will lead to making a difference, knows the monumental effort required to overpower our inner ‘chimps’, the limbic brain that says ‘nah do that latter, have another coffee, you’ve done enough today, tomorrow, tomorrow…’.
Think about the fears we’ve overcome, think about the hard work we put in at the beginning, the tweaking, the testing of ideas until we started to make some breakthroughs.
That doesn’t mean working when you’re just not in the right mood, sure take a break, go for a walk, watch some Netflix or whatever, but keep the faith in your work, keep the momentum going and do the work needed to keep going.
If you set yourself daily small manageable steps, this is so much easier to do. After all success is a series of small steps done well on a daily basis.
Just keep going.
Philip Dodson 