Jorg's Brain Log

For the whole day I’ve been thinking about what to write for on my blog today. I promised myself to write a post today, so I have to do it. It’s hard to write something when creativity is low, and normally this would mean I would skip the day.

The whole thing about waiting for creativity is that it doesn’t come with regular waves. Sometimes it takes days before it happened by itself and I feel creative again.

But the same thing as with any other wave is that it doesn’t take a lot to create a big wave. A small wrinkle in the water is sometimes enough to start a big wave. Just like this post; After one sentence I didn’t have to think anymore about what to write. It just came by itself.

This applies to a lot of stuff. Just take a small step, just get in the car, just do 5 minutes of work, etc, etc. It’s that first step that counts. The moment you start something you’re more likely to finish it. Starting something is the most difficult part of it.

I’m glad I started writing the first sentence of this post today. Finishing was easy!

For the last couple of months I’ve blogged very detailed about everything I did and what I was going to do. It was very freeing to do this kind of thing in such a ways that my 250 a day visitors could read what I was going to do and especially end of the week could see if I kept myself to my schedule or failed myself.

Self discipline has really grown by this exercise. It has helped me to know that people know if you keep your word and stick to what you have promised. But now the real test will begin. The next 4 weeks I will not blog about my plans and what I’ve accomplished during the week anymore. I’ll put it back into my spreadsheet where I normally logged  these kind of details.

It will be interesting to see if I can keep productivity as high in the coming weeks as I’ve done in the last months. It will be a good test! Back to work…