#05 Commit

There is no such thing as writer's block

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness.

W. H. Murray

If you want to break from analysis paralysis, commit to taking action. Writer’s block is not real; the idea that it needs to be perfectly written is what’s blocking you. Once you start writing, the process will take care of itself.

WIIFM

Committing is taking action after a decision. Commit, and as Goethe said, providence will bring about forces you can’t fathom to aid you.

The world’s most famous sculpture, Michelangelo’s David, is so powerful because it captures the moment David decided - indeed committed - to going against Goliath.

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The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.