You can be in a heads-up mode, looking for new opportunities, or you can be in a heads-down mode, just executing and focusing.*
Jared Kleinart

Like a child going out to play, creativity leaves reason at home and saddles up free association for long galloping rides.**
Robert McKee

Being focused and getting on with things is
useful until it isn’t, when it no longer works,
What then? –
It’s your job to have some fun and find something that will.

If the phone won’t ring, make the call
If the mountain won’t move, shift it
If the birds won’t sing, sing to them all
And if the sun won’t rise, lift it^

*Dorie Clark’s The Long Game;
**Robert McKee’s Character;
*Lemn Sissay’s let the light pour in.