As creative professionals, acting upon our ideas is crucial to our long-term success. I love this quote from Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland: “The hardest part of artmaking is living your life in such a way that your work gets done, over and over—and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful.” One of the practices that has been useful to me is how I move from admiration to action, and I’m going to share a few ways I do that.