Not so trite, after all

When I first launched the Coach Minda website (May 2013), I made a personal commitment: write one blog a week.  I had researched the business side of blogging and how to reach readers who fit the profile of would-be clients, but I wasn't ready for that kind of approach. I just wanted to learn how to express my professional interests, in writing. And publicly.

Writing 52 blogs a year  (not exactly each week) has been challenging, nerve wracking, time-consuming. Difficult!

Months ago, feeling I should be writing more, but having nothing more to express (publicly),  I whispered to myself, "You don't have to write every week or even every two weeks. Just write when the feeling strikes. When you have something to say."

So the blog went from a weekly, to a bi-weekly, to a monthly and now, the longest interval yet, two months (since the previous blog).

I let myself off the hook because after a few years:

• I no longer had a good reason to spend so much time struggling about what to write about and how to write it
• I ran out of fresh perspectives, new angles and original ideas
• I don't know what would be relevant to my readers - from Canada, the US, the UK, Brazil, China, Russia, Israel, Italy, India and Japan
• I felt, with so much human suffering and misfortune in the daily news, it was trite to be blogging about adopting healthier perspectives regarding current life and work challenges, or how to deal with procrastination and perfectionism, or how to untangle time management problems 

 
A few conclusions:

• Motivation increases when you have a clear WHY about WHAT you want to do or accomplish. Without a clear idea about the goal and purpose of my blog and without a specific target audience to write for, it's easy to lose energy and drive
• Too many options dilute focus. There is such a thing as too much freedom and too many choices. It creates distraction and diffuses effort
• Conviction to do something comes with self-doubt about being able to do it well. Sometimes you just need courage
• A fresh perspective is not always possible. Even though we are inundated with information about every subject under the sun, with plenty of insights and prescriptive advice on any range of subjects, there is room for more
• Not so trite, after all. Optimism about our capacity for self-improvement, creating meaning in our lives and making our lives better, finally, is not trite. 

When the feeling strikes,
Coach Minda