All the posts-it notes are definitely not doing it for me anymore.
This blog is just a tool.
It mostly exists because I can’t read my own handwriting – and writing in a document on my computer just seems weird and unstructured.
We can’t have that, now can we?
All the posts-it notes are definitely not doing it for me. The productivity nerd in me wants everything to be useful and done with intent.
Starting a blog is so 20 years ago.
But here we are.
The goal is to use this as a tool for collecting interesting ideas – within and around. It will be a place to examine the stories I tell myself and a way to get all the stuff racing around in my brain out and into form.
I am sure it will be more useful that way.
This project is also about looking for the positive stories and rewiring thought patterns.
How we think is a muscle.
It can be trained.
The brain is an instant feedback loop for our thoughts.
If we feed it with negativity, it will feed us more negativity back.
“Oh, you want to think about that time you completely failed and drowned yourself in shame? Great – here’s a replay.
On repeat.
Sit back and watch.
Ill give you a show all night long if you want.”
Thanks brain.
But we cannot blame the brain.
We started it.
And only we can rewire it.
The beautiful thing is, that just knowing that you are going to write something later, will prompt you to notice things differently, and alter the way you think about that thing.
So that is what I am going to do here.
Perfection is the enemy of creation.
To make this work, I am setting up a set of rules:
All nights that I am not out/somewhere else, I will write something.
Seth Godin would say that I should do this every day. And he is right (he is always right). But I also know that building a new practice is hard, and setting the goal too high from the start, is setting yourself up to fail. Start small with a goal that is achievable. Build from there. That is how you build habits that stick.
This blog is a personal project, that just happens to be online.
If other people end up reading it, that’s okay. But it is not the purpose. If they do, it does not mean I have to try to be interesting, relevant, funny or likable.
It does not mean I need to please anyone or worry about what they think of me.
I just have to write, and figure shit out.
That’s my job in this.
Nothing else.
I will be completely honest and open, as have always been my practice.
If this ends up getting very personal or vulnerable, so be it. It might trigger a bit of negative self-talk from the introvert in me. “that’s so self-indulgent and self-absorbed, putting this shit online! Nobody cares what you think or about this process of yours, how dare you waste space on the internet for this”.
Well. Listen here, negative voice inside me:
It does not matter in the least. I’ll do it anyway.
There.
I´m glad we got that out of the way.
I will write in English, because for some reason, I think better that way.
But if I want to write something in Danish, that’s okay too. It is my blog.
My English is not perfect, but I am not going to care.
Perfection is the enemy of creation.