Inspiration and Work Ethic

I finally got a page-a-day desktop calendar yesterday for 2026. 

 

This is rather late in the year for me. I usually buy a desktop calendar in October or November of the year before. But chalk it up to moving to a small town area. When I lived in San Marcos (in south Texas). there was an outlet mall just down the road, and a calendar and games store was easily accessible. Over the 35 years I lived there I made an effort to buy a new desktop calendar every year. Usually just something that caught my eye, with no agenda for a specific topic. For instance, one year I bought a Marvel comics calendar.

The one pictured above I found in a bookstore. It is the "Inspire 2026" calendar.  Since I started this blog I have looked for sparks of an idea that would inspire me to write. With this inspirational quote calendar I have the potential of a spark every single day (although I probably won't post every single day... I am a great one for procrastination...)

Already, however, I have, from the backlog of the previous pages from 21 days, a couple of really good quotes and a couple more that have some serious potential.

"If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down." 

                                                                                         -Toni Morrison 

 

One of the most important things I am learning in these declining years is that that affinity for procrastination I mentioned above is a serious hindrance to my progress, whether in the physical realm or the spiritual realm. I have dreams like anyone else, but as someone once said "great journeys begin with a single step." Meaning that if I want to achieve any particular goal I actually have to get started on it right away, and not put it off until later.

This blog, for instance. If you know the background, the initial idea to start it was sparked by a comment my cousin made. All well and good, but the idea would have just remained that, an idea, if I hadn't stepped up and wrote the first entry. The blog can be useful only if I continue to fight that inclination to put off indefinitely what could have been done today.

In the same respect, the life I want to live, or what remains of it at least, can only progress towards a goal I set if I remember that I need to get started on the journey if I want results. Nothing is every accomplished if all I do is dream of a better future. I actually have to strive to reach that better future.

May your spiritual journey be fruitful.

Quiggy