Blogging Every Day is Tough

It seems no matter how hard I try, I can’t quite find the time to blog every day; thus, my daily blog is more like an almost-daily blog. It’s clearly a priority issue, and I’m okay with that.

As I mentioned in my first entry, I enjoy personal challenges. And since I spend the majority of my day alone, working at home on getting a business up and running, I was hoping that I could improve my thinking, writing, and communication by starting this blog.

Truth be told, finding the time to write an entry each day is hard. Although I have a list of ideas of topics to write about, I don’t have anything written in advance and most days simply write whatever is on my mind at the time.

Prior to this I attempted to write a daily journal entry and failed miserably. This almost-daily blog provides the same type of outlet for my thoughts and feelings, but since it’s public I feel there is more accountability for me to write each day (even if there is virtually no one following it!).

As I’ve been writing, I’ve discovered a number of things…

Writing does not come naturally to me

When I begin to write an entry, it takes time for me to really get the juices flowing. And even when they do begin to flow, it’s not at a very fast rate. It takes me more time to organize my thoughts than I’d like, but I am seeing some improvement. One of the things I’d like to try with a future entry is using Michael Hyatt’s approach to writing entries in 70 minutes or less.

I’m afraid of offending people

Since I started this blog over two weeks ago, a lot has happened in the world. A lot of terrible, terrible things. We also have a historic election taking place in the United States. I have so many thoughts and feelings about these (and other) things, but I’m honestly afraid of expressing them in an open forum like this. Not because I think my thoughts are controversial, but because anything that is slightly misworded or not expressed clearly could cause an avalanche of negativity. (Although in reality, anything that isn’t controversial will probably get little to no attention anyway!)

I can’t commit the time to write quality content

I have a lot of ideas for entries queued up, but so many of them require a significant amount of time to write! I’d like to spend at most 30 minutes a day writing an entry, which is almost impossible if I’m trying to write high quality material. I need to start thinking about writing my entries in a way that a single topic can span multiple days instead of trying to convey all my thoughts about the topic in one day’s entry.

Some things aren’t worth writing about

Many days when I start writing something, I realize that it just isn’t that interesting or important. A lot of the ideas I start to discuss or complain about in an entry just end up feeling trivial.

This has made me realize just how easy it is to let things affect you that really should not be affecting you! These things that can negatively affect your motivation or mood on any given day just aren’t worth the consideration you give them. Perspective is so important.