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I came across a Japanese saying today that definitely holds truth, but not much constructive advice, and I thought of a way to reconstruct it.
“Beginning is easy. Continuing is hard.”
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And so for anyone doing any kind of creative project – this is my advice:
Bridge your gaps with beginnings.
If you think of your project as one giant task, with a beginning, a long drawn out middle part, and an end – it’s more likely to experience ‘the continuing’ as hard.
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But if you think back to before you started and reframe the story as:
– the beginning was where I made a brave choice
– the long drawn out middle is where I get to choose daily to reaffirm my choice
– the end is when I become something I would never have been without all the ‘continuing’
then each day holds purposeful value and is in a sense a series of brave beginnings.
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Hope that way of looking at things gives you the energy to keep at your creative endeavour.
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And if you have a sh*t day of it, don’t worry – tomorrow you can begin again😉
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(artist retains all rights to print reproductions of this painting)
Inspiration: common license imagery
“Beginning is easy. Continuing is hard.”
.
And so for anyone doing any kind of creative project – this is my advice:
Bridge your gaps with beginnings.
If you think of your project as one giant task, with a beginning, a long drawn out middle part, and an end – it’s more likely to experience ‘the continuing’ as hard.
.
But if you think back to before you started and reframe the story as:
– the beginning was where I made a brave choice
– the long drawn out middle is where I get to choose daily to reaffirm my choice
– the end is when I become something I would never have been without all the ‘continuing’
then each day holds purposeful value and is in a sense a series of brave beginnings.
.
Hope that way of looking at things gives you the energy to keep at your creative endeavour.
.
And if you have a sh*t day of it, don’t worry – tomorrow you can begin again😉
.
(artist retains all rights to print reproductions of this painting)
Inspiration: common license imagery