You don’t need a walk-out song to start. Most real work begins in silence and sweatpants.
RESILIENCE
RESILIENCE
The imagined beginning has music, a clear morning and the right mood. The real one has none of that, which is why waiting for the cinematic version works so well as a delay. Actual work starts in ordinary conditions, usually while you feel unremarkable, and feeling unremarkable is not a sign the timing is wrong. It is simply what starting is like.
Lower the requirements for beginning until they are almost nothing: sit down, open the file, give it fifteen minutes. Save the ceremony for afterwards, if you still want it then.
When will you start if the mood never turns dramatic?
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.