Action Proceeds Motivation

2025-05-12

There is some kind of phrase (which I will now butcher) ‘Action precedes motivation. It is something my Dad talks about a bunch and I do believe it is true for me and many others. If you want to be a certain type of person, if you want change in your life, don’t wait for inspiration because it comes too slowly and sometimes never comes at all. Just start doing very small things to embody the change.

For me one thing I want to do better is write more consistently in this blog. I have a rough few months and haven’t written anything since January, whoops, but the antidote for the large gap is to start again. So today I was able to get a few minutes together to jot this down. Hopefully tomorrow or later this week I will be able to write again. If I can develop this writing routine I do think it will come easier to me in the future.

Aside from writing these are a few other things I want to do more regularly:

Things that are working pretty well:

Things that I have decidedly given up (for now):

So hopefully I can continue to change the habits and routines in my life.

-Gary