One Apple A Day #1072
Every day, multiple times, I have to overcome the same tricky gap. No, it's the one between the train and the platform.
Mine is more insidious because it's invisible and intangible.
It's the gap between wanting and doing.
I do many things during a typical day. Most of them are habits or routines for which there's no "wanting" involved. I just do them because they are part of who I am, of my identity. If there was a gap, it disappeared through repetitions.
Then there are things I do to react or respond to external triggers, events or situations. In there, there is a bit of "wanting" involved, so the gap appears. However, the pressure, internal or external, more often than not makes me leap over that gap and move into action.
The gap becomes visible with all its mighty power with the things I plan to do in the day. The ones that I put on my to-do list.
Sure, some are more "have-to" than "want-to", but it doesn't make much difference when it comes to the gap.
The gap is always there, waiting for me. The closer I get to move from "wanting" to "doing", the broader and scarier the gap looks.
I've lost a lot of good ideas in that gap.
Some of them are still trapped in there.
I haven't found any way to close that gap.
So far, the only tricks that work for me are creating habits - so I become comfortable with the gap until it becomes almost invisible - and devising structures that pull me to the other side of the gap, like having an accountability partner or enrolling on something.