Re: Do I have it?

[Ivriniel]

Rick said:

“So let’s say I have a 700 word article to write. Rather than wait for inspiration and a two hour gap to sit down and write it, I can convince myself to at least create a Word document on my computer. “I’ll just open a document, and write the title. And throw down three ideas.” I won’t spend more than five minutes. (And by the way, i don’t do this if I really only have five minutes. I do this when I have all day but can’t get started.) Three minutes later I’ve got the document, a title, and a couple of ideas… Then another idea, perhaps one that makes me smile, so I expand that with a couple of more thoughts… and that often triggers something… And I’m writing. Sometimes I’m not, but most times I find myself doing way more than five minutes. Even if I go 20 minutes rather than 2 hours, I’ve now done more than I thought.”

This reminded me of a Doctor I know. He’s made a commitment to do 2 minutes of Yoga every day. He says that way, on days when he doesn’t feel like doing Yoga, he gets up and does the two minutes, and usually, by then, it’s feeling good enough that he continues on for a whole hour. If however, at the end of two minutes, he still really feels like he doesn’t want to do Yoga that day, he’ll stop. Then instead of beating himself up for not doing an hour of yoga, he’ll congratulate himself for fulfilling his commitment.

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