Nutella and peanut butter distractions

# Chapter 344

Well the clock is ticking and I am staring at a blank screen. Then my wife asks me “what am I writing about?” Well nothing actually, if I don’t get started. Getting started is always the most hardest thing. And keeping it going is the most important thing. Momentum is your friend! Don’t let it slip or slide away. But the importance of momentum is overshadowed by the difficulty of getting started. All the parts of my life that are stuck, static and waiting are getting started problems. And getting started challenges are seduced by the multiplicity of easier things to do. There is always something easier to do that needs to be done or could be done. Those never-ending easier things to do are the primary excuse factory that I use to explain why I haven’t gotten started.

If you think that this subject is growing as I am writing then you would be correct. I write and then more stuff that I am having impossibilities of getting started shows their heads. But at the pace I am writing today, the entire jar of Nutella is going to be gone by the time I reach my word count. I surely don’t have any problems whatsoever starting a new jar of Nutella! Or Peanut Butter! I can get started with either one of those easily enough, and that is what I am talking about. We are always surrounded by Nutella and peanut butter kinds of distractions that make initiative on the important stuff much much more difficult. But it is the important stuff we want to be known for and that is critical to complete. Can’t complete if I fail to begin.