Starting the middle of last year, I began running in the morning.
5K, every other day. I was pumped.
Then I sort of injured my calf and I couldn’t run for a while.
I vowed to bounce back fast – as soon as my calf was fully healed.
Then my calf healed.
But for some reason, I couldn’t find the energy to start again.
The longer I waited, the harder it was to start.
I could describe it best as reverse momentum.
This is my best explanation for the writing hiatus I experienced. This is my first post in almost 2 months.
People started to ask me – are you still writing? Do you still love it? Do you still believe in it?
The answer for me is a quick, resounding “yes.”
Its just that I had allowed myself to fall into a rut. The worst thing was, because of the ever-increasing gap between posts, I pressured myself into thinking…
“I haven’t written in 2 weeks?! Egad, I HAVE to come up with something better than normal!”
and then…
“I haven’t written in 3 weeks? Egad, I have to come up with something super!”
leading to…
“A MONTH? Now I have to write something which will change the very way people look at entrepreneurship!”
A look at my drafts page would show a number of half-baked, barely-started, “epic post” ideas.
I now realize the utter futility of this approach.
A few minutes ago I just said, “WTH, lemme just write.”
And here it is. And something tells me I’ll be writing my next post without letting two months lapse.
There’s something quite entrepreneurial about this approach as well, eh?
Waiting for the absolute best time to take an absolutely grandiose leap will rarely work.
Instead, just do it.
JUAN GREAT LEAP 