Things that get bums OFF seats (or mine anyway)
photo: carpentergraphic
What are the things that get me off my rear-end and into the scared/excited mode of doing something new?
Sometimes it’s boredom with how life is going generally, other times it’s another person who says something that resonates and inspires, or a performance/film/piece of art/book.
What happens then is that the cogs in my brain start turning, with a little squeak here and a groan there, and soon they are whizzing around so fast that I start to feel ill (yes, it’s true).
Usually somewhere in the middle of the night or early morning, I then get gripped by fear, thinking: ‘Oh my god, what am I doing?’.
The thing is that most of us feel like this, and sometimes we feel so scared about it, we drop the idea or don’t do anything. One ‘trick’ I’ve used is to talk to people and tell them what you are thinking. This has the slightly negative effect that when you are panicking about it you feel even worse, but it does mean that you are more likely to carry on with it because you’ve ‘given your word’.
Then a kind of magic starts happening, people tell you what they like or dislike about it, offer their own thoughts and before you know it you not only have more of a plan, but you have others who share your vision.
