Once you start something, especially if you make a public announcement about it, you feel the pressure to keep it going, you also fear the ridicule of stopping and having to admit that it was a failure.
Like most things, there is a temptation to pick the easy ‘wins’ the ‘low hanging fruit’ and once you had those wins and picked the fruit that is in easy reach, then you face the hard stuff.
This is the real test of your faith, even though you’ve publicly stated that you are going to do a certain thing, you get faced with the hard work, the things that will really test your bravery, it will test you to see just how vulnerable you are prepared to be.
However, the more it feels uncomfortable, the more you feel the vulnerability and the desire to hide, then the more likely what you are doing is the right thing to do.
The more you challenge yourself to create the best you are capable of, your most rebellious work, your most daring ideas. Then the more our ‘chimp’ limbic brain will act up – good. That means you’ve hit the jackpot and if you haven’t got that feeling, then it’s not worth doing.
So once you start to feel the willingness to hide away and not do, then it is the best time to get that thing started.
Philip Dodson 