Wednesday, May 7, 2014

The Journey Starts Here

I'm reading James Altucher's book Choose Yourself and it has given me so much to think about.  As a part of this, I've felt like I need to start a blog.  I'm not sure why.  Maybe some of it is to get my thoughts and ideas out of my head.  But a journal would do that.  It's more like I feel like I need to put myself out there.  Maybe I'll make some connections. Maybe I just need to share myself and my knowledge.  I don't know, but I'm going to go with it and see where it goes.  Starting a blog may not be a big deal to most and may be very natural to many.  For myself, it's not.  I'm not a writer.  In fact, I don't really like to write.  I'm a numbers gal. 

As this idea of a blog kept rattling around in my head, one of my thoughts was that I don't have time to write a blog.  I'm already about as busy as I care to be.  So I decided that I would limit myself to spending just 10 minutes on each post.  I have time for that.  Ten minutes isn't a daunting amount of time.  Like so many tasks that seem daunting to me, if I set a small amount of time aside for them it helps me get started on them.  Whereas, if I look at the whole task, it's too daunting and I never get started.  Cleaning the house, for example.  That's way too big of a job to want to even get started on. But if I tell myself, I'll clean for 30 minutes, that's manageable.  I get started and I can feel like I've accomplished something when I stop after 30 minutes.  Or if I'm in a groove I can keep going and then I've exceeded my goal. 

So that's my 10 minutes for today!  I don't know where this journey is taking me but I feel like I'm on the path to something new. 

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