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Just Keep Going.
When you start you’ll have all kinds of ideas about what you’re starting. You’ll think you know what you’re doing. You’ll be wrong, but you’ll have no way of knowing that yet. Nothing is ever what you first imagine it’s going to be because, as it turns out, you’re really bad at predicting the future.
Don’t be phased. Keep going.
You’ll learn that this thing that you’re creating is not under your control. Youll discover that it has ideas of its own about what it should be and what it should not. Your lack of control will feel like a failure, but really it’s just you learning that you’re only human.
Don’t be discouraged. Keep going.
Keep going when that small familiar voice appears in the back of your mind and tells you that it’s pointless. That somebody else is already doing what you’re trying to do and they’re doing it far better than you ever could. Keep going even if you see clear, incontrovertible evidence that this is true.
Keep going on days when you feel uninspired. And on days when you fear that you’ve left it too late. Keep going when nobody but you will notice if you don’t. Keep going through all of this, and you’ll have made a good start.
