Writing when I’m not on a roll

As I get ready to push the publish button on a post every morning, I typically ask myself two questions –

Am I sharing an interesting idea?
Am I articulating it nicely?

I don’t think I do a great job articulating my ideas in these posts. I am not all that good a writer – my grammar and choice of words is average and my sentence construction is weak at best. That means I need to spend a lot more time editing and rewriting posts than better writers and there’s never enough time to do that in the morning. I’m hoping I’ll get better at this as the years pass.

But, I do feel I owe it to everyone to write about something insightful or interesting. And, when I go through a couple of days when I wonder if I have been sharing something of value, the subsequent days become tough till I break out of that cycle.

I have to go back to the “why” behind this blog. Broadly, it involves 3 things –

– Share my failures so I remember they are learnings and don’t take them too seriously
– Help you gain some occasional perspective in your daily life – we can learn from someone else’s experiences
– Live the “a learning a day” philosophy and hopefully spread it as I believe the outcome of doing so is a happy one..

Writing when I feel I’m not on a roll is painful as I feel like I’m not meeting objectives 2 and 3.

But, visiting the “why” helps.. because I realize that my failure to share something insightful is still just that – a failure. They aren’t to be taken too seriously. And perhaps I’m meant to learn that, on some days, just showing up is a small win worth celebrating.