October 25, 2025
Something I was pondering this morning:
It’s Saturday. My wife and I had a long night – kids crying and needing attention, kids waking up early, perpetual trouble recovering sleep. Nothing too unusual. When I finally got out of bed I felt completely unmotivated. I hit this wall almost every day where I just don’t want to do anything, and nothing no matter how enticing sounds interesting to me.
My thought was to approach it like a scientist.
Rather than accept my complete lack of motivation, I decided to come up with a hypothesis and follow it regardless of my lack of interest.
I held this idea strong for about 5 minutes, and then I started to futz around with something I love on the computer.
I love making music. I love cooking. Both of these things get me out of a funk, almost no matter how I feel.
I’ve been working on a larger music project for a few weeks (although the broader idea I’ve had on my mind for years).
This is a long drawn out way to say that there’s a popular idea that emotion follows action, and not the other way around. It seems like it’s true.
Get out there and spend time doing things you like to do. It’ll probably get you so fired up you might even spend time doing things that you DON’T want to do just so you can go back to doing things that you do want to do, and that means progress.
Progress my friends no matter how small is still progress.
I’m not going to post any songs, but listen to literally any big song from Sound of Music and it’ll be stuck in your head forever. FOREVER.