How (Writing on) Medium Changed My Life

Somehow… some way… Ive written over 100 articles on medium… and got no viral posts…

Of course that’s not what Im here for. Or have tried to ‘achieve’… In fact… I dont really know what I want to achieve in terms of writing.

I dont know if I do want those ‘sexy’ numbers of thousands or even millions of people viewing and reading what I write right now.

I dont know if I do want to write everyday

I dont know what exactly I want to write about

I dont know what value my writing has for other people

All I do know is that I enjoy writing… even when I procrastinate and feel anxious about writing due to the energy it takes to start, as well as the embarrassment of my sub-par quality…

All I do know is that writing is a form of release for me. An outlet when it seems most every part of my life is stuck, constrained, and artificially limited.

Writing, on Medium particularly, is a sanity check.

I tell myself that I have great ideas and that many people may benefit from my perspective. I tell myself that my mistakes and jumbled method of writing and non-linear journey of success will one day help others.

I tell myself that I know what I am doing when I write.

But I dont.

And that's okay.

Medium has helped me to live this very awesome piece of wisdom from Gary Vaynerchuk that I just saw today, coincidentally:

Document. Don't be fancy.

And I plan on ramping that up…

Documenting my dance and maybe other stuff on Instagram

Documenting my everyday thoughts and struggles on Twitter

Documenting my mental process through podcasts on Spreaker

Documenting my results and initiatives with friends on Facebook

What am I documenting about though? What is my journey?

To become a Trillionaire, a mogul, a creator, an influencer…

Not even for the money and the fame. I dont want that, thought it’ll be useful.

No, what I want is the ability to help change the world as best I can.

I shoot not for the sky, or the moon, or even the stars… I shoot for the self, for the you and the me… for the space beyond and between and behind the Universe, the Multiverse...

I believe I have answers to many problems, and I want to be able to test, to execute, and to share the success.

But big ideas are a lot like huge mountains… You cant just start and expect people to know or even believe you can climb to the top… I know people dont expect and dont believe I can deliver on such lofty words.

I have to show them. I have to show myself.

I tend to think and overthink and metathink many thoughts… I am tired of that… I am so very ready to create and to do. But its hard. So I want to build the habit.

Medium has helped me to do that… Writing a book or fancy essays were too easy to dismiss as something I didnt have enough skills for… Wordpress was too easy to get lost in and not hit publish… Building my own site was too easy to procrastinate and not push the latest thing… Facebook was too easy to get distracted… Twitter too easy to not write enough… Youtube, Instagram, Snapchat too easy to abstract into something popular or important people do.

For just about all of those, there is an excuse that I dont have a camera, or a phone, or video editing skills, or thoughts that can be shared easily, or cool pictures, or whatever…

Even though Medium has become something beyond little people like me can ever actually ‘prosper’ on, it still serves as the greatest tool to create with no excuses and no barriers.

I know that the only reason I fail to write and hit publish on Medium is because I failed to write in the first place.

The only reason I fail to write is because I failed to produce, to execute.

Writing (on Medium) taught me how to execute.

And it is teaching me more and more everyday.

This is actually a ‘placeholder’ #blogumentary… a draft a while ago for occasions like this… but it is very much appropriate for today, at this moment in my #pathofatrillionaire.

Thanks for reading!!