It seems that life gets in the way of our hopes and dreams. We are so busy just doing the tasks in front of us that we don’t get to the things that are really important to us. Sometimes those things that might have been important once lose their urgency and inherent energy and we wonder why we even wanted to do them in the first place. Or dared to think we were good enough for such an undertaking.
I think this can be a danger sign. If we thought, once, that it was something we wanted to do, perhaps we have simply ignored it long enough that its unique energy has dissipated and what’s left is only a cold husk of our initial passion or idea.
This happens to me. I think I might like to do something but there are so many other jobs that need completing that I put the thing I want to do on the backburner. Yet when I have time to do it. the passion has gone. The energy is no longer there. This has happened many times in my life but it is only now that I am questioning it. Is it that I talk myself out of it once the initial flush of enthusiasm is gone? Do I need to make a start when the thought is new? Am I simply fickle? If it is something worthwhile for my life, how do I get my enthusiasm back? What is the first step that I need to take?
These are all good questions. Is there a way to get that enthusiasm to return? To re-ignite the passion? Can you take an old idea and somehow infuse it with the just-born newness it had when you first met it? And if you can, the next question is a simple one. How?