I don’t know about you but I never get bored and to be honest with you I find it hard to understand how can anyone experience boredom when life can be so interesting.
Look at me and this blog for example, I opened it because I had so many things to say and share (or so I thought) and yet I managed to neglect it for nearly an entire month. I’d start a post and stop in the middle of it, read it, realise that I didn’t quite like it and instead of keeping working on it I’d let myself get discouraged and never finish it. Isn’t it interesting to observe ourselves, to look and realise how things sometimes turn out so differently from what we thought they would?
Tonight the same story was repeating itself, I started writing a post about the importance and the power of intentions, how I find useful writing them down and many other things and then about half way through that little voice inside my head started talking again (when I write I normally stop the “chatterbox” and go with what the heart has to say) and then, as usual, I stopped. Normally I would have ended it there, logged out and turned off the computer but today something unexpected happened, deep inside another voice began to talk and told me that there was another option, that I did not have to accept the obvious choice and that instead I could take a different approach to the whole thing and choose differently.
As you can see I did make a different choice and here I am writing something about it. I took a different path and by breaking the old habit I am sure that from now on the writing will be more productive, the posting will be more frequent and the topics more and more interesting. And you know what? Just the thought of it makes me feel better, it sort of empowers me, gives me energy, food for thoughts, inspiration, willingness to share.
Now, don’t go subscribe to the feeds from this blog and expect a post every single day ’cause I know that ain’t going to happen, not just yet at least but I am committing myself to write a new post every two weeks for a start and then we’ll see how it goes. I mean who knows, it might even be that from now on I’ll be so inspired that it will happen weekly or even more often, only time will tell but one thing I know for sure, something happened tonight, something shifted in a different direction and I am really looking forward to seeing where it leads me.
For now….let me enjoy the ride.
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I see the point, I agree, a blog can be a commitment and sometimes if u didnt write something since a while then u would feel u have to do it, it could become a must, u could even feel pressure, and that’s not good at all. Often, when somebody tries to write a post every day, every day, that could end up in writing the same things, losing passion and even making the reader feeling not interested anymore. Writing a post it’s a feeling, once u feel it, u do it and that’s it:)
One of the most visited Italian blog, Paul the wine guy, which even won a prize, a Macchianera Award, few weeks ago, just closed because the author was feeling too much pressure, he said he wasnt spending too much time with his family, with his kid, hence he thought was better to quit, to enjoy life and not a screen. Well, perhaps quitting overnight it’s a big too much:) but what i wanna say is that as long as a blog doesnt become a news website or whatever so important, at the end of the day it’s just a blog, it’s a collection of thought, doesnt have to stress the author.
I think writing every two weeks or once per week would be good, but I’m sure you will end up writing a post as soon as u feel it, without caring about time or scheduled time-lines.
Have a nice Sunday!:)
Hi Andima, good to see you here again. Yes, I do feel the pressure sometime but I tend to ignore it. This blog, as you said, it’s really a collection of thoughts nothing more and since I have lots of them I’d like to be able to share them with whoever wants to read them. And yes, a post originates from feelings which in my case were so overwhelming that in this instance they were creating a block as opposed to inspire. Now I got the block out of the way, let us see what’s next.
Have a good week!