Hype is a sugar rush. Habits are breakfast.

Enthusiasm arrives in a spike, does very little work, and leaves you flatter than before, which is why big motivating moments so rarely change anything. What actually moves things is dull and repeated, and it generates almost no feeling while it happens. The unexciting version is the one that accumulates.

After the next burst of inspiration, convert it straight into something small and scheduled instead of something ambitious. One repetition on an unmotivated Tuesday outweighs the plan you wrote at midnight. Judge yourself on the boring weeks, since those are where the result comes from.