This year I have challenged myself to write more this year than in any other year of my life. 500 blog posts to be exact.
My pace has been steady. There are weeks where I pumped out some really great content, but then I have weeks where I struggle and feel empty with no value to share. It’s hard to write every day. It’s psychologically soothing and damaging all at the same time. I love to write, but then there are days where I just hate the idea of it.
I can firmly believe that all of us have a mutual feeling of love and hate towards things we are passionate about. It’s just how life is. Ebbs and flows. Pendulums, tides and every other metaphor you can think of. How we feel just changes over time. You tie that up with unlimited variables and struggles that life presents and you can carve out an amazing story.
Time is our friend and our enemy. Again. Love and hate. We can do so much over long periods of time, yet we beat ourselves up when we don’t see success every day of our life.
We lose sight of the bigger picture when we focus on the pixels. Pixels that are only significant when combined with others.
I have 128 days left to publish 168 posts to reach my 500 mark my December 31, 2014. That’s 1.3 posts per day. About 9-10 per week.
That means I have a lot of work to do.
Why am I doing this to myself? Because I believe this challenge is one pixel. A part of a picture bigger than I can see right now. I do it because I know it makes me a better writer and a better communicator. I do it because I know that when a future challenge is presented I know how far I can reach. Maybe even how much farther I could reach.
If you don’t reach, you’ll never know.
Good luck with hitting your goal! I missed mine by a mile, but I am still determined to try and catch up a little in what remains of the year.