Sometimes all we can do is ‘Go through the motions’.
After you’ve made a commitment things will often get in the way or time will slip away such that you can’t do what you had set out to do. I committed in the last few days of March to begin writing something here every day. I’ve been doing great up until today. I’m at 12 days in a row now! There are only a couple hours left in the day and I still haven’t published anything. I still don’t have any ideas that seem worth sharing. But I made a commitment and I intend to keep it. Ha! I am actually going to post what I am typing right now! It would be so easy to go to bed and try again tomorrow. But I know that if I miss this one day, I’ll be far more likely to miss again in the future, or worst case stop all together. Sometimes it is best to just go through the motions. Even if in the moment you don’t feel the work is effective or up to your best, the act of carrying that momentum forward will keep you on track to bring your best work forward in the next. And sometimes (this is a case in point) going through the motions will in fact bring a good idea to light that you hadn’t thought of. So often great ideas are born within the struggle, not outside of it.
Here’s to going through the motions…