13 posts tagged with "projects"

My newsletter, or the one tech "me" thing I've set for myself, my little reprieve from "work tech" and "tech for others", is my little "totem" that tells me things are still manageable.

When my "thing" slips, due to whatever, lack of motivation, lack of energy, lack of time - all those things just point me to "where have those things gone to?" and "why wasn't my thing a priority?".

Because in the grand scheme of things, my "thing" isn't that big of a deal.

It's 4-5 hours total effort time, to ideate, write, revise and proof a newsletter article.

If I don't have time/energy/space/care for that, every week, I'm doing something wrong.

And it needs to be addressed.

"We are what we repeatedly do… therefore excellence is not an act, but a habit.” -- Will Durant.

I think every every night, or at the end of every day, a thought can be written down. I can write something down at the end of the day. A summary, or reflection.

A thought.

No based on being anything. Just thoughts, ideas, musings, reflections.

But public? Yeah why not. These aren't secrets. They're just thoughts and ideas, shared so they test the edges between comfort and honesty.

How honest or real am I being about this thought? Am I posturing? Playing up because people are watching? Doing it for the likes? The reception?

What if it's just this, just a plain thought we've all heard before? Does it matter.

Maybe I build on these, day by day, and on a weekly basis, these collection of thoughts make the one big "idea" that is the weekly newsletter?

I think the point is, that it doesn't matter. That I just build the habit -- not via, 90+ subscribers on a substack, but at the end of every day, reflect a thought onto this blog.

I don't think the actual blog will matter, the content that is, but this act of sitting here, pushing those external voices, and pressure from my mind, and just write my thought out simply, and unadulterated.

Let's try that.

If your efforts today didn't meet the imaginary mark in your head. Take the lesson. Always take the lesson. Because it will always, always be there. The result you wanted is never guaranteed - hoped for, possibly expected - but never guaranteed.

Write things down, in goal setting it makes it real, practical, daily. In reflection of an effort not resulting in what you had hoped for, write it down. Reflect on it. It's hard to do that in your head, write it down, bring it into this realm, confront it, learn from it.