Don’t let things fizzle out. Try to keep a definite focus on the things that you do. When you finish an event, a project, a show, a party, a whatever, try to shift into something else as if you are stepping into another room. If you feel vague or anxious or what gets called ‘lazy’, take a moment to step into that new thing. You’ll carry forward the energy from whatever you’ve just done. If you need to stop something without completing it make sure you end in the middle of things: mid-sentence, feeling in mid-air.

How momentum builds

When you return to thinking about the thing that you were doing, the event or whatever, something will have changed and you’ll have the essence of a way to continue. This is how momentum builds. You turn your mind away from something after having been properly, intensely, involved in it, you get on with something else decisively, fully engaged in that new thing, and then you return to considering or continuing what you were doing.

Don’t wait for something else

Don’t allow things to fizzle. If something fizzles out there will be very little to return to. Don’t let things bleed out. Fizzling is a loss of purpose, intensity, and momentum. If you go back to a piece of writing, for example, something that you ended on a beat, the stroke of a minute on a clock, there will be little difficulty in continuing. If there’s difficulty then maybe when you previously as if you were waiting for something else to happen. Don’t wait for something else to happen, just get on wth things.

Writer’s block is something that happens after too much hanging about doing nothing.