Get That Boulder Rolling

For the past few months, my brain and consequently my journals have been packed with a bunch of ideas that I want to one day act upon. It ranged from an article in the newspaper about my town or maybe one about a past head-of-state. Heck, I've even thought about how great it would be to go to Russia with a camera and just explore. However, those ideas remained just that, ideas. Realizing that actually accomplishing these ideas would entail me putting in lots of hours and efforts, my brain resigned itself to staying at the Level 1 phase where I daydream. You see daydreaming is awesome because I receive all the dopamine of imagining my grand and ambitious plans, without the stress of actually having to accomplish them. The downside of this state of affairs however was the fact that I knew that I wasn't living up to my potential. I had a  great fear of me growing old and realizing two things, number one, my ideas were never that hard to accomplish I was just being lazy. And number two, that I would be an abject failure in life, an accomplished man in my head but not in practice. All of this pushed to me begin a very incremental process whereby on a daily basis I just had to do one thing, just one action which would get me closer to completing one of the ideas which I wanted to do. This process was slow but at this point, I prefer slow progress which lasts, compared to fast advancements only to grow tired and take a break. This new change in methodology has delivered amazing results. The mountain of obstacles that stopped me from finishing any meaningful goal , quickly becomes nothing more than a few roadblocks when I take things step-by-step. Yesterday I stood in my librarys' archives looking at centuries-old texts and being around the treasure trove of materials which last year drove me crazy because I didn't know where to find them. All it took for me to get those materials was to tell someone about this random idea I had about writing an article about my town and they pointed me in the direction of another person who lo and behold had all those materials. That experience will forever stick with me, even if this article idea falls flat or there are some unforeseen circumstances that make it impossible. It proved to me that so much of the process is to just get the damn boulder rolling. It's funny because I once thought that the researching process would've been the hardest part ( and it still may prove to be ), but looking back now, it was the overthinking which made me feel the most stress.  So my advice to you dear reader would be, that whatever grand project or ambition which you have. Find the strength to commit to incremental advancements just one thing a day that would get you closer to your goal. Because I can promise you, that once you get that boulder of discipline and action rolling, nothing is going to stop it.