Mining Inspiration

"How Much Joy Can You Stand?

How to Push Past Your Fears and Create Your Dreams"

by Suzanne Falter

art:  Susan Branch

"The popular belief is that inspiration "strikes" us like a lightning bolt from the sky.  Actually, it's the other way around.  In reality we strike inspiration much the way miners strike gold.  By ceaselessly working, reworking and reworking the old territory, sooner or later we'll run into a little nugget of something wonderful, something better."

"And herein lies the difference between the average dreamer and the person who goes after their dreams.  The successful person is willing to put up with the hard work because inside of it he finds a joy like nothing else on earth.  But the average dreamer does not know this joy yet.  The average dreamer finds his joy in tangible rewards and gets stopped when he realizes all that hard work may ultimately be for nothing."

"Finally, you can understand all those curious twists and turns you took and see the larger, greater picture that they form.  And this is when all your doubts about your goal begin to blow away like so much dust in the wind.  This is also the point when you come close to sensing the divine in your work"

"It is the sheer poetry of creating something from nothing and working on it until it is truly and absolutely right that ultimately keeps you coming back.  This is the magic that can only be born of hard work, and this, ultimately, is realizing your dream."

Try This:  Suzanne suggests you use an oversized calendar to keep track of the days you actively work on your project.  Note the emotional climate of each day's work.  It will be a visual journal that you are making progress.

                  

http://www.suzannefalter.com/taster-of-joy/

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Take Joy!