I am wondering whether I should go back to my failed daily writing challenge. I am fully aware that I shouldn’t post anything online that is not useful for anyone.
That having said, I also realize that putting a word limit on what I write may be counter-productive as it may prevent me from publishing something useful because it is short and/or incentivizes me to ramble. I really don’t need a reward system for the latter.
I clearly consume too much content every day. With too much, I mean there are so many things that are worth being being recorded, but – here comes the incentives in again – but other than being for my own good (which should be strong enough of an incentive, but apparently isn’t) I don’t have a reason to jot down the little tidbits I learn every day. Which means they are dumped in this attic like part of my brain, just to never reappear again. Or they appear in the wrong moments, after too much work or wine or both.
Long story short, I am totally selfish when I make the decision to write AND post almost daily.
And since in my experience it’s always more fruitful to work on something that has an end, I’ll limit this experiment to 30 days. If I am still happy after these 30 days, I can simply continue. If I am however not happy with posting every day, I can stop, having completed this experiment successfully and knowing I stuck to my word.
I also decided not to put any categories on anything I write anymore, because I am just bad at sorting things into categories. Categories really have no purpose when every post hast either the same or always a different category. Just like conversations, they get boring if you always agree with each other and too exhausting if you never do.
So let’s see how this experiment works out.
Talk to you tomorrow.