DJ 234

Immediately

Jay Hildreth
Aug 23, 2017 · 2 min read

I’ve seen in multiple articles that taking a walk can be good for creativity. I was about to say “I think” to start the next sentence but I know that skating around for me has the same effect. That coupled with music going in the headphones, I’ve certainly had ideas come to me, especially in skating/snowboarding itself but outside of that as well. Tonight was no different. I was skating home from 7 Eleven and realized I didn’t really have an idea for a blog post today. Given what’s happened the past couple days, it came to me what the lesson was to be learned and it can be summed up in one word:

Immediately.

Do it immediately. Last night, actually, before I wrote, I went on a crazy cleaning spree, cleaning damn near the whole house, bathroom in all along with laundry. It had gotten to the point where things were getting a tad too messy as a whole and I couldn’t stand to just look at it, wondering where to start and putting off. Today, I went out on a fairly successful mission to sell some old stuff after ending the same mental dance. Two nights ago I didn’t even blink when asked if I wanted to go to the WJ park, despite knowing how late it was and what I had going the next day. ‘Something’ told me, practically screamed at me to go. I’m certainly glad I did.

All of that quickly flashed in my mind and the answer became clear. I didn’t hesitate to find a notebook once I got home and write it down. Key phrase being, I didn’t hesitate. If there’s one thing I’ve done to get in my own way thus far in life, it really starts with hesitating too much. Hesitating is just a derivative of fear and I listened to it quite often. Instead of listening to that ‘something’ and doing what I really wanted right then, I listened to the many excuses that fear conjured up.

I saw this tweet the other day and I had to take a screen shot of it.

Since then I’ve been thinking about quote and how profound this is. I’ve realized that that ‘something,’ that urging feeling is pointing in the direction that I want to go deep down.

LOTD: Enough listening to fear. More listening to dreams.

Peace,

J

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