BIZNET PRODUCTIONS: SOWING AND REAPING PRINCIPLES
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Network News
on Thu 05 May 2005 06:54 AM PDT
Inspiration or Perspiration by Dick Innes
"If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get
anything done. Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know
which will grow--perhaps it all will" (Ecclesiastes 11:4, 6,
tlb).
At lunchtime today I was telling my wife that if I always
waited for inspiration to motivate me to write, I wouldn't
get much written because there are lots of other things I
enjoy doing. Not always, but as a general rule, writing for
me is only about five percent inspiration. The rest is 25
percent discipline and 70 percent perspiration or hard
work. I think every writer, from time to time, struggles
with a writer's block.
When I thought about writing a book some years ago, it
seemed like a daunting task but a friend suggested that I
think of writing just one page at a time. Yes, I thought to
myself, I can handle that.
When people ask me if I love writing, I usually answer by
saying, "I love having written." I do like to communicate
ideas however and writing is one way to do that. Teaching
in person is a whole lot more fun but for me writing has
proven to be more effective especially today with all the
wonderful means of communication available to us.
Life's like that. Obviously not everybody is called to
write, but we are all called to do that which we are
equipped to do. There's a company where I live that is
called Instant Grassification. It's a cute and clever name
for making instant lawns. But for achieving something
worthwhile in life means having a clearly defined purpose
and then discipline, hard work, and determination to hang
in for the long haul--and to "keep on sowing our seed."
There is no such thing as instant success.