TIL — Inception
I have been thinking, planning, strategising setting reminders to write more often. In my medium drafts I have 2 pending articles that are waiting for…. I don’t know what. I have been waiting for inspiration. When will I get it, I don’t know. How much time I have wasted on this… you have no idea.
Over the last few years, I have had a lot of stories to share, language or framework nuances I learned, technical challenges I solved, things I architectured with my team, lessons I learned along the way. And no matter which tasks/ideas tracking tool I use, I always tended to have a bucket for ideas that I wanted to write about. Things just never fell in place.
Breaking the loop
So, today morning I decided to break this loop.
How?
Last saturday, I started reading this book: The Art and Business of Online Writing: How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention.
One of the ideas that author throws at us is that there are some people who are always waiting for that inspiration, their writing to be perfect — full of knowledge and facts and never publish their work.
Sounds familiar? Guilty 🙋♂️.
I too have been waiting… for so long, for me to be perfect, my writing, my ideas to be in shareable state, but that’s not going to happen — I can tell from experience.
Challenge
Starting with this post, I am challenging my self to write every working day(sorry, I need weekends to rejuvenate 😛) for next 30 days.
What will I write about? I don’t know, I haven’t thought about any topics, so I’ll be writing about whatever thing I learned that day. Be it technical, manegrial or any life lesson. I will just write for next 30 days.
I am setting aside 30 mins every day to do this.
Hopefully I won’t falter, and be able to write everyday. And this is today’s learning: write everyday in public, gather feedback improve, stay strong.
