Running out of enthusiasm. How does that happen?

Is it like Running Out Of Milk?

Where do you go to buy another pint. Or litre?

It can come from outside sources and personal achievements. Little or big successes undoubtedly help. But they aren’t guaranteed. You can’t pop down to your local Success Store for a refill of enthusiasm.

And willing yourself to “keep going” can definitely keep you going sometimes, when things are tough. But, still, keeping going is so much easier when there is a positive emotional engagement with the thing you’re doing. Will power has very definite limits for even the most stoical among us.

I’m getting into the habit, little by little, of choosing to see every new day for what it really is. A new moment, a new beginning. The past is in actual fact history. We are capable of letting it go and not allowing it to affect our future actions. And these aren’t just cliches, whipped up by some Duracel Preacherman.

It’s simply true. We can always start anew. Not just in a tired, grudging fashion. Even if we are tired. Even if we are feeling crap. But that feeling can float away like a cloud. Because it has done before and it can do right now. This, THIS, really is the moment.

Everything has passed, and will pass again.

Nothing matters but now. And what a privilege to have a Now.

ps. I know how all of this can sound. Life has turned me into a “born” sceptic. But I’m still saying it because I’m experiencing it to be true right now, and something that I can do something about. Or not do something about, if I choose. What I mean is…it’s in our hands.