by Suzanne Lieurance
You know the project. It’s the one that lives in a folder you don’t open. The one you think about when you’re falling asleep. The one you’ve told yourself you’ll get back to — soon, when things settle down, when you feel ready.
You already know you’re going to finish it. You just haven’t decided yet.
That distinction matters. Knowing and deciding are not the same thing. Knowing keeps the project alive in your mind. Deciding is what moves it back onto your desk.
Avoidance almost never comes from not caring enough. It comes from caring too much. The project means something to you, which means finishing it — or not finishing it — means something too. The stakes feel high, so you stay close but not quite inside it.
The way back in is not motivation. Motivation follows action; it does not precede it. The way back in is a single small decision: open the file today, read one page, write one sentence. Not to make progress. Just to remind yourself that you are still the writer who is working on this.
Once you’re back inside it, even briefly, the avoidance loses some of its power. The project becomes real again instead of symbolic. And you remember that finishing it is not about being ready — it’s about deciding that you are.
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Suzanne Lieurance is the author of over 40 published books and a transformational Law of Attraction coach for writers who are ready to stop waiting to feel like the real thing. At Write by the Sea, she guides writers through the identity shift that changes everything — not just the writing, but the whole life built around it. She is the publisher of Manifesting Monthly magazine and the host of Monday Morning Manifestors.
