{"id":673,"date":"2018-03-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/?p=673"},"modified":"2018-03-12T20:44:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T03:44:43","slug":"dont-wait-for-inspiration-to-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/2018\/03\/18\/dont-wait-for-inspiration-to-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Wait for Inspiration to Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a common misunderstanding about inspiration: Many people think it precedes getting started, that it comes before putting in hard work.  They think it springs forth from an unknown source, ready to propel, a source of energy unto itself.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing could be further from the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Inspiration does not spring forth from nothing, it grows from the seed of effort.  Beginning is the best way to cultivate inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>The same is true of momentum; an object at rest will remain at rest unless acted upon.  Motivation and energy aren&#8217;t just going to spontaneously appear.  Like a fire they need to be built from the kindling of desire and the spark of doing work.  Only after you&#8217;ve created the right environment and put in the hard work of getting things started will things really start to ignite.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to be motivated to write, you need to write to get motivated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motivation and momentum are the result of, not the catalyst for, hard work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}