In the beginning any and every enterprise undertaken is always exciting and fun. As time goes by and a pattern gets set, the same exciting task seems boring and burdensome. The initial fervour evaporates and is replaced with a sense of delay. The task remains the same, it is only our perspective about it, that gets altered. We begin to delay, relegate, skip, mourn, and even when we get to it, do it only haphazardly. Most initiatives undertaken are left on the road just as easily as they are picked up - and new ones tried! If only we see to the end of all that we undertake, we'd be superheroes!
No wonder, most sages and the experienced seek not for creativity or success, but perseverance! The motivation and the spirit to carry on, when the task has lost its initial shine and glamour. When the going seems tough... that is a good test of our primary reason(s) to take up that initiative. The depth of that motivation is seen not at the beginning but somewhere before the halfway mark!
No wonder, most sages and the experienced seek not for creativity or success, but perseverance! The motivation and the spirit to carry on, when the task has lost its initial shine and glamour. When the going seems tough... that is a good test of our primary reason(s) to take up that initiative. The depth of that motivation is seen not at the beginning but somewhere before the halfway mark!
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