Looking down on Curral das Freiras, Madeira. I have been persisting with trying to write this blog for 18 months now, and it has been something which I have found really hard. To start with, I felt as though I didn’t know much about technology, and even though I enjoyed reading other blogs on diverse subjects, I wasn’t sure whether anyone would be interested in anything I had to say. After talking to other bloggers, I finally took the plunge, nervously I might add. On the one hand, I wondered if anyone had seen my post, and on the other, I was scared that anybody would have! I was very self-conscious about it and didn’t really tell anyone that I had started a blog.
Even now, after 18 months I find it very hard. I am incredibly chatty and have lots of ideas, thoughts and feelings about many subjects, but writing about them has been a huge challenge for me. I am still finding my ‘voice’ as it were. So, it would make sense to just stop writing, which would save me lots of time and effort, but that is precisely the reason I have to carry on. The fact that it is so hard for me, gives me even greater satisfaction when I publish a blog post, or I hear that someone else has benefited from what I have learnt.
Persistence and resilience are king in this tip, but I am also going to practice writing, specifically free writing (just allowing myself to write about whatever comes into my head without a particular format). I think that will help me to clarify my ideas before I sit down at the computer and might make it less difficult for me.
To benefit from this self coaching tip, I would urge you to:
do something new that you find difficult, or persist a little longer at something you are thinking of abandoning.
You might just find it brings you more than you expected.
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