“It doesn’t take long for dust to gather on your momentum, making your goals turn stale.”
When I read this today I said, “That’s it!”. The thing I always fear happening after a great motivational event like last week’s writer’s conference or Tuesday’s book signing I attended. I always drive home super pumped and full of new ideas. Then comes the weekend. Then comes Monday and…I want to to do something, but thoughts of “Where do I start?” or “Oh I just don’t have the energy today.” start moving through my brain. The dust begins to gather on my momentum.
Living alone all week, I’ve had to go to some lengths to avoid this dust. My daily yoga practice helps a lot, because not only do I get inspiration from the practice itself, but also from the people I do it with. Another thing I found helpful is to not put away visual evidence of the great event I attended. Leaving out physical evidence of what I learned and got so inspired about, goes a long way toward stoking my motivation and sweeping some of that dust off of my momentum.
My best dust-catcher is my little altar of beach stones that I write my reminders on and leave in plain sight – like right between me and the TV where I see them and read them everyday. Just reading my stones causes some dopamine to be released in my brain, giving my momentum a good dusting and rejuvenating my motivation. This one is easy. Check out my “August Altar” below.
I change it monthly. This gives me a chance to take inventory and discard the rocks I no longer need, and replace them with new, current, goals and the colors of a new season (August was pink), dusting away cobwebs of feelings and emotions, making room for new growth.
And so, as another day goes by, it takes effort to not let the dust settle in those in-between times when I’m on my own, and…I have written.
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