How long until the seed sprouts

Abe
2 min readAug 19, 2021

The dreadful wait of creative pursuits

If you have tried to bring things to some kind of fruition in your life, you have surely gotten frustrated a time or two. Things just seem a bit out of reach for the timetable you’ve set.

You are so tied up to the results of the project, your worthiness is highly vulnerable. You swing from motivation to an unreasonable desire to rest and daydream.

To live and to create art. There is a connection and maybe a fine of a difference.

For some reason, that fine line is very confusing to navigate.

There shouldn’t be this or that. We should be able to have the cake and eat it right?

This world is very abundant, surely.

Surely, there is enough to go for me and you.

So what is the missing link?

Here goes my theory. I believe that we have an unrealistic view of progress and time.

Let’s start with progress.

Progress is something we only notice when it’s big and obvious. We tend to underrate small and minute differences when it comes to change. It doesn’t satisfy us enough to be worth the work.

And so motivation dwindles because the big result takes forever to arrive. We wait and wait…

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Abe
Abe

Written by Abe

I write about holistic growth and trading futures. You can find more on my substack as well @ https://simpletrading.substack.com