ideasarehere

…wasn’t built in a day. That’s how we use to say, meaning “Take your time, don’t hurry” or “You can still do it tomorrow”, an excuse, a cheap ticket to procrastination. I’d like to add a new interpretation here. It’s easy to have an idea, but it’s hard to turn it into reality (implying that this very idea is not something you can do easily).  Considering Rome, it was comparatively easy to have an idea of a grandiose city, but it was hard to build this place. It took ages of persistent effort to get it done.

Or like Edison put it: “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” Which calculates like 100 days of execution per day of invention, which is still efficient as efficient can be, I think.

We’re quite thoughtlessly swift about using phrases like “pigheaded determination” or “push through the dip”, having understood them intellectually, but we’ve not embraced them emotionally. Which is why we’re still in the same place as yesterday. The week before. Last month. Be happy if it all comes together on Monday 1st — least loss of time.

Once you have set up a schedule, respect it. You don’t have to like it. But you will like the result.