At some point everyone has to choose. Each person must choose for themselves how they want to conduct themselves based on who they believe they want to be. Since it’s pretty clear that up until now I’m a very hit and miss blogger type, the only thing I have is to take a look inside and really see what is important to me, not what my mind believes is a good idea. I feel that many people in our current “hustle” culture and FOMO activities take on things they really have no desire to follow through on long term, e.g. my mind’s personal commitment to blog once a week/month or whatever I decided at the time I was crafting my last entry.
That all said, one of the reasons why I continue to revisit this and other blogs I say I’ve been committed to maintaining is that I believe I have things to say that will make a difference to others in a positive way. I’m not saying that what I’m communicating is “right” and “the only truth”. I choose to make public my observations, and if they are of use to anyone reading, then so much the better for me having put it out into the universe.
Now having said all THAT, I do plan to blog here on a more consistent basis, as I’ve learned the trick on how to approach it: previously I came to the blog world thinking that because I have lots to say I could drum up the desire to write the content any time. However, I also realize that while I have much to say I don’t always have the desire to make the content in that moment. So, the approach that I’m embarking on is crafting several blog posts in advance and then delivering them at a particular time each month rather than “sitting there every 15th of each month to make a new blog entry”.
What I’ve finally just realized isn’t new. Instagram influencers have been doing this for years. They accumulate content for their feed and release it over time. They will sometimes create content on the spot when the mood hits them or the current opportunity is too good to pass on, but for the most part they create a basket of content to be posted later. As smart as I am it still took me a while to figure this out for myself, though I’m sure I’ve heard about this in passing as far back as several years ago but it’s just taken this long for me to catch up.