“The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
-Chinese Proverb
Blogging and more specifically writing is something that I foresee as being a useful skill to have in the next ten years. It’s something I want to be good at because I think it’s a skill that is required for growth. I don’t want to limit myself from future opportunities because I haven’t spent the time to hone this ability.
There have been many attempts on my part to pick up blogging. I wish that it would have stuck five years ago. I imagine how much better I would be at writing and expressing thoughts if I’d been practicing and putting effort into it that whole time. It’s easy to look back and determine how I could have better used that time. It’s much harder to envision a path forward. I can see where I want to be. I can see that I’m obviously not there. Comparing those two things is an obstacle that gets in my way every time I sit down.
I’m going to start to attempt to look at it from a different perspective. Instead of seeing where I want to be and insisting to myself that if I’m not at that level then it’s not worth doing, I’m going to look at each attempt as a building block. Instead of looking back I’m going to try to look forward. Of course I would be better if I had already started last year, but I didn’t. So in order to be there next year I have to start now and get over it.*
*So if you don’t want to deal with my practice, come back and in a year and see how I’m doing.
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