You know how it goes. You started a project of some sort, all full of excitement and enthusiasm. You have all sorts of goals and milestones and benchmarks, and it’s going to be amazing.

You get to work. 

And you work.

And you work.

Now it’s not so exciting anymore. Maybe the results aren’t coming in as quickly as you had hoped, or maybe you’re just in the grind, and you can’t see the forest for the trees.

You sit down at your computer, you stare at the screen, and you got nothing. No inspiration. No ideas. You are just blank.

Or maybe you have your gym clothes on, and you just really, really, don’t want to go work out. Or go for that run that’s on your schedule. 

What to do?

It doesn’t matter. Do it anyway. Remember WHY you committed to doing this thing – to quote Simon Sinek, if you know your why, the what and the how will come. 

If you don’t have any inspiration, you need to draw on your commitment instead. To quote Inky Johnson, commitment is staying true to what you said you would do, long after the mood that you said it in has left.

Did you commit to getting fit, so you won’t die of diabetes like your mother did?

Did you commit to writing a weekly newsletter or doing regular live videos, because you have people who look to you for inspiration each week?

Did you commit to building your business, so you can support your family, help others support their families, and have the time freedom to live the life you want?

It doesn’t matter whether you are inspired, as long as you are committed. 

Have you forgotten your WHY? Time to dig it out again. Write it out on a piece of paper and stick it where you can see it. 

As Viktor Frankl said, those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’. He was talking about surviving a Nazi death camp – what do we have to complain about? 

Let’s get to work!