#1411 - start and keep going
How much time have I wasted waiting for the inspiration to begin?
For the right idea, opportunity or moment?
I don't know, but I know it's a lot.
It took me a lot of practice to learn that, more often than not, inspiration follows action, not vice versa.
Ideas arrive after you start typing, drawing, painting, planning or doing whatever you want or like to do. If you wait for the inspiration, you may never begin.
But where do you start if you have no ideas to begin with?
Whatever or wherever. It doesn't really matter as long as you begin and keep moving long enough.
Do you remember the conversation between Alice in Wonderland and the mysterious Cheshire Cat?
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don't much care where," said Alice.
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.
"-so long as I get SOMEWHERE," Alice added as an explanation.
"Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."
So, the two key ingredients are to begin before you have the inspiration to do so and stick with it long enough for the inspiration to come, focusing on repetition more than perfection.
To do so, however, it requires faith in your potential. Even when you can't see it. And yes, every human being has extraordinary creative potential.