“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working” - Pablo Picasso
A lesson that I’m always relearning is that you won’t know what you’re going to create until you start.
Every week, I teach a class on the scriptures at my church. Every week, I do the necessary readings and research in the hopes that I will find inspiration on what to talk about. And 9 weeks out of 10, I finish the research and still have no idea what I want to cover in the lesson.
I think. I ponder. I stress. But nothing comes.
Eventually, with Sunday approaching, I tell myself it doesn’t matter what I talk about, I need something (anything!) to teach.
So I open Google Slides, and start throwing ideas at the wall.
And as I do this, the ideas come flowing. Not always immediately, and not always good ideas. But the concentration of ideas in an hour spent creating the lesson is vastly greater than when I sit and try and think of ideas.
And then I repeat the same process again the next week.
It’s the same when I come to writing blog posts. Or writing software. Or anything else I want to create.
The ideas don’t come from trying to think of ideas. They come from doing the work.
You won’t know until you start.
So just make things. Make anything. Just get started now.