"FOR BETTER IS HALF A LOAF THAN NO BREAD"
Nike logo. from Nike.com I recently learned that doing certain things half-heartedly might not be such a bad idea. According to this school of thought, we don't always have to feel like it, to actually do it. Getting things done even when all the conditions of work are not perfect might actually be the thing that makes us become better. As a writer, I love it when I am in the mood to write. I find that in those times, the writing comes with ease and I feel a certain energy that psychologists have termed "the flow". Being in the perfect mental state to work is great but what happens to our work when we don't feel like working? It suffers. So, perhaps the logic of just doing it might help us in certain areas of our lives. At the end of the day, practice makes perfect and the more we do, the better we become. If you run a mile twice a week even when you don't feel like running, that's four miles at the end of the week. If you practice learn