A New (Writing) Year Resolution: Just Do It!

I used to love to write. Yet over the last year or three I’ve found it more of a challenge than a reward. Nowadays I find myself enjoying coding more than writing, and while coding is fun, I find myself increasingly unable to get out of my own head and write what it is I’m doing.

So what happened? 🤔

Writing has never come naturally to me but I enjoyed the process of getting thoughts down on paper and iterating on the words until they flowed well and (hopefully) delivered the message I was trying to get out to the world.

Then something happened. I’m not really sure what but I believe the expectations became too high. I work some amazing people who have great ideas and absolutely incredible designs, so my blog posts and newsletters have never looked better.

Yet at my core I was having less fun. It started to feel more like I was working through a todo list rather than just writing for the hell of it. So I started to procrastinate more and find other projects to work on.

If I continue on this course I fear I’ll become that programmer that can do great things but is unable to explain to anyone what they do and why it’s so important.

So here I am writing my first post on my new blog. I’m not sure where this blog will go or what my expectations should be, but that’s for another day. Today is about writing. And by publishing this to the world without overthinking it I’ve already been successful.

I enjoyed opening Bear and getting these thoughts out of my head. It’s been fun so tomorrow I hope to do this again. And with any luck I can fix the styling and other issues that accompany this first post. After I write something, of course. 🙂

Until next time, take care and keep your chin up. ❤️