People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
~Zig Ziglar

When I learn new things, I have a habit of taking that information and holding it across the faces of all the little flickering lights that make up the things I may already know. It means that cross-field application of concepts is slowly becoming a natural way of progressing for me ^_^ The quote this evening sparked me off on another such thoughtscape.

In Environmental Science, there is a thread I hear resounding through every page we read, every lecture we have, every experiment we do: sustainability. If we cannot find a way to progress that allows us to coexist with our surroundings instead of consistently depleting and destroying them, we will – in the end – destroy ourselves. The goal is to establish a level of interaction that will not draw, as my instructor says, from the principle of the environmental resources we have, but from the naturally accruing interest that arises when it is well managed.

Take those basic principles and pull them across. Now, work from, “… motivation doesn’t last … we recommend it daily.” Perhaps, what we’re doing here is working with a renewable resource that has been harvested beyond sustainability. We need to take the time to invest in those things that bring us motivation – to plant, to weed, to water, to nurture.

Which of course makes it all begin to bleed over. I’m sure you can probably think of a few other places these same principles could be applied. And so there’s my next question: how do you go about establishing a sustainable, renewable life? I think that’s going to be something playing around in the back of my head from here on out ^^