If you are someone who has thought about chasing your dreams, read this

It isn't easy, but it is doable.

Anyone who goes after their dreams must experience moments of uncertainty. Wondering if it will work out. Laying awake a night into the darkest hour, thinking "oh what if I did it this way" or "what if it doesn't work out at all."

I was really thinking about this, in one of those darkest hour moments.

How do I know I can do it?

It all starts with commitment. Doing something over and over again. Big or small.

For some it is the gym, others it is a journal.

You just need to stick to something. That builds out the proof.

That is the biggest thing that I have found in all of it. Commitment towards a cause, makes your life better. Even if I don't feel like it.

The only way it gets better is if you don't cut corners.

I have lived a lot of my life trying to find the path of least resistance. SparkNotes for books I never read or half assed essays when I was in school. Or side projects I work on in tech, that I never finish.

I am reading this book called Skin In The Game by Nassim Taleb.

It is a book on finding your accountability. He has this line in one of the chapters that actually pierced my soul. In the dark frosty mornings is when I tend to do my reading. Eyes heavy, and my mind is groggy. A lamp is then turned on in the reading corner of my parents house. That soft yellow light illuminates it perfectly.

Artisans have their soul in the game.

That jolted me from that groggy state of mind.

This isn't a new concept to me. All it takes is work, as I am sure most of us have heard before.

Its true. No two ways about. I find that in my creative endeavors. When I try to optimize it is when the soul leaves the art. Those are the moments I tend to want to give up. Like trying to find the right ways to say something via AI or how I can repurpose these longer form ideas into snappy Tweets.

Instead of sitting down and doing the work, I would take an easier path. One that doesn't challenge me.

I have been dragging a little bit. The posts are going live on Sunday, and I wrote in my notebook. "I am not writing everyday." I have been here before, when I first started to post every week. So, do I really want this to be my dream? Clearly not, because I am not relentless towards it. It has to be obsessive or the dream you want to accomplish will never make it out of the cave.

It is naive to think you are going to be creative every day. There will be droughts in your dreams. Periods of dryness are normal.

Those are the moments when you have to double down and wander through the desert. In spite of the doubt that you feel. Knowing eventually you will reach an oasis.

Your prior commitment proves that you can do it now. So keep going. Even though the future is hazy.