There is a lot of sports happening right now, you may have heard. One of the things that fascinates me about sports is about how it ties into our hustle culture. How, you get injured, but are praised for working through it. How we don't just reward going fast or high or far, but going beyond what your body says.
Studies show that taking a break actually helps you work better. There are days when you cannot push through, cannot go farther.
And creative pursuits can be like that to. Showing up counts for a lot. There are days I thought I didn't really want to write, but I did. There are days when I thought I wanted to write and yet got very little. But showing up helped because the focus on the story let me figure out why I was stuck. Or at least figure out that mt characters were stuck so I could work on figuring out why.
But there are also days I just can't. Whether I have a headache, or a lack of energy, or something else. And the trick is learning when to push, and when to go get cookies and come back another day.