This is EXACTLY my feeling of Failure in 3 years of blogging
Daily Blog 7
I’ve been writing on and off for over two years now and I’ve experienced just about every thought you’ve described.
Beautifully said!
I’ve learned that the state of your mental health and financial stability matters very much here. Its the practical, fundamentals that stimy me, and you it seems, from being able to commit for a long period of time.
It always comes down to the age-old problem of money… How can one invest in oneself over months and years worth of time, when every month and even every week is a struggle to actually survive?
No, we may not be as bad off as people who don’t have a home or access to water or essentials, much less Internet. It does not however mean that having to worry about how we are going to get food and keep the electricity on is an inconsequential task.
There is a struggle to just survive even in the richest countries in the world… and trying to make a difference and throw our gloves into the Gauntlet of Content Creaters is almost an exponential multiplier to that struggle.
But just as you said, it only makes us stronger. Even if.. When we fail. Even when we break our 60 day streak because we had to work two jobs and walk 6 miles and take 3 busses but couldn’t afford an LTE data plan and the public WiFi was so bad that it ate all your drafts instead of auto-saving… so you as soon as you get home and jack into the neighbors WiFi they gave you that one time and didn’t realize your phone would remember the password… you begin to craft the most beautiful blog you’ve ever written. You poor your heart and soul and sweat and fatigue and anxiety and insecurities and hopes and dreams into that blog. You do a quick polish and add some images you’ve been saving just for this along with your nice formatting. You finally hit publish and can almost feel those hearts (now claps) come in…Then you wake up the next day not even realizing you fell asleep as soon as you put your bag down, your laptop still a nigh blank screen with naught but a line of nonsense from your sleep deprived mind and your phone dead as your spirit.
Even then… it makes us stronger.
After the few days or even weeks of beating ourselves up over it… we come back. We drown out our fears and anxiety with Gary Vee posts and Westenberg counter posts and posts from that dude you DMed in Twitter one time who didn’t really have a blog before but now blogs more consistently and gets more claps then you.
You rally. You take all of that pain and motivation and inspiration and you smash it together into a polymer of material ready to print out your future one steady drop at a time.
I am stronger. Because its either that or death.
And I never enjoyed living life as an undead zombie.
🚀Today I had a pretty simple day at work. Finally got the keys to a couple of VR games from a developer of our most popular games, Arizona Sunshine. So spent most the day just implementing those as well as the (kinda disappointing) Ready Player One: OASIS beta game. I have a bone to pick with them… going to have to make a whole blognor through ranting about Vive. But at least their better than Oculus.
🚀Tomorrow, I have to create the web pages for the games and tell social media that we got new games!! I’m also going to drop a podcast about Worldbuilding!!
CTA: What is something you failed or fell off doing or ‘forgot' about due to losing your streak? Get back to it. Its never too late to keep going! As long as you’re alive, you’re able to grow.
