On doing it anyway

I took on this daily blogging challenge/adventure in August. I enjoy writing, but never put digital pen to paper recreationally. Why? You’ll get bored by my cliché reasons: self doubt, fear of not being good enough. Yawn.

I was brushing sand off my feet on a Spanish beach one day this summer while listening to a Seth Godin interview. “I think everyone should blog daily,” he said with conviction. And he was speaking directly to me.

For months — nay YEARS — I gave in to the Resistance, Steven Pressfield’s descriptor for what holds us back from making creative work. However, “Resistance is always lying and always full of shit,” Pressfield writes in The War of Art. Damn. I should get that tattooed on myself.

I contemplate hundreds of things I could do rather than figuring out what to write here. Underneath the procrastination thinking is the fear: what if I can’t think of anything to say?

But, I open the “New Story” page anyway. I’m doing it anyway.

“Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.” — Steven Pressfield