I’ve been restoring an old 17th century farmhouse for almost four years now, and the first part (four rooms) is only just being finished. Probably it will take another ten to fifteen years (eleven more rooms) to complete. Lots of people wonder how I keep going with such regularity and how I have avoided divorce so far. I basically did what Lorelle says: I made a plan, I stuck to it ; after a while, constraint turns into duty, duty turns into habit, and sooner or later, habit turns into addiction. Now, I cannot skip more than one week-end without feeling awkward.

The other important thing is to write down (or just remember) your motivations in the first place. When the steam cools down, this can boost your motivation, just like an old couple re-reading sweethearts’ love letters.

I’ll always support my favourite bloggers, but then again…since most of them are personal blogger, their reasons again are always their own. Nothing we do can convince them to do what they don’t want to do otherwise again…it would become a chore to them and that’s not the point of blogging.

So I’ll all but hope and keep trying to find more good blogs before they disappear.