Beginnings ask practical questions that excitement often leaves unanswered.

Enthusiasm is good at starting and poor at logistics. A plan feels complete while it is still a feeling, and the unglamorous questions of when, how much, and who else has to agree get postponed because asking them seems to dampen the thing. Then they arrive anyway, later and more expensively. Excitement is fuel rather than a substitute for arrangement.

With whatever you are beginning, write down the three dullest questions and answer them this week; doing that early tends to protect the excitement rather than spoil it.