I struggle when it comes to finishing things. Just look at my blog post entries for the last year. I started with this really great idea to talk about these resolutions and how I was gonna work them out and I was gonna tell you all about the great stuff that was going to come about because of it. It was going to AWESOME.
I didn't make it to the end of January.
The thing is I do this sort of thing all the time. I come up with a great idea for a project and I'm really excited about it. It's going to be the best thing in the world. So I start putting work in. I get momentum. I see progress. But inevitably at some point the excitement fades. It's no longer fun. The progress isn't as evident as it used to be and I get get discouraged. Then a million distractions start to pile up and they all promise to be the next big thing and that the current thing isn't really where it's at.
I struggle with discipline when it comes to working. I'm realizing that maybe projects can't be powered off of excitement alone. Motivation isn't enough. At some point the excitement is gone and the only thing that you have left is grit and self-discipline. Discipline shows up and gets the work done when motivation takes the day off. I have a lot of cool of ideas for projects that I want to start on in the next year and I know that none of them will get done if I don't have the discipline to see them through.
So yeah, I'm gonna finish something. I'm gonna finish this list of Resolutions by the end of the year. I know it's gonna be sloppy. I'm probably gonna hate seven out of every ten words I write, but my procrastination is really good at disguising itself as perfectionism. I'm gonna have the next thing up tomorrow evening.
Have a good one guys.
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