I know I am constantly battling with finding a balance between doing and being.

I have this list of things that I would really like to do or achieve. Things like: make a feature film, take a show on tour, paint pictures and create artworks, make videos and short films, design a coffee table book, write, and more.

I read books like ‘Keep Going‘ to help inspire and be motivated as well as learn techniques and ways of using my time and talents while growing the skills I need  to achieve some of those goals and ideas. But it still comes back to doing something!

“Let go of things that you are trying to be (the noun) and focus on the actual work you need to be doing (the verb).”

Keep Going – Austin Kleon

It is a challenge for me not to spend all my time planning, and thinking of what I want to do, or trying to find out how to do it, but I never end up actually just get on with it and doing it!

That’s the verb part: the taking action.

The hardest part of any project, idea, blank page, piece of paper; is just to begin, to start. Focusing on the idea, task, or project and just get going. So often once I start, I am underway and find I can keep going, but it is the starting that does me in!

So I just keep reminding myself, I never get to the being (a creator) without first doing (creating). But also remembering not to be so obsessed with the doing that I forget who I am and would really like to be.

Cheers