Inspiration

I get most or my ideas for blog posts, music, anything else of a creative nature primarily in three settings: in the shower, on walks, or by sitting down and forcing myself to make something happen. As I write this blog post, I am sitting down at my job, being put into a supervision role at the moment. As such, I have time to type this up, because I'm not really doing anything. I don't have much on my mind, but I'm going to force myself to type a post out anyway. And in a way, forcing yourself to do something is what you have to do sometimes. When people are interested in writing a book or a screenplay or a song, the most common excuse used is "I have to wait for inspiration." And in a way, it's important to have inspiration when doing something in a creative capacity. Unfortunately, inspiration is an incredibly abstract concept, and it's not uncommon for someone to experience a period of time where no inspiration strikes at all. Writers block perfectly exemplifies this phenomenon.

This inspiration fallacy can extend to even monotonous tasks such as cooking, cleaning, working out, etc... Sometimes, we are motivated to do the things that we should be doing. Sometimes, there is no motivation. Lately, due to time constraints, I have been lazy about working out and writing music. I haven't worked out since Saturday, and it's already Wednesday. I haven't written music since a 6 hour session on Sunday. I still know how to work out, and maybe if I go workout today, even though I really don't feel like it, the quality of the workout will not be what I am used to. But having a crappy workout today beats not working out at all, and sometimes you're going to have to force yourself to just get up and do it.