Just Doing It
blog Tuesday 12th of August, 2008
I spent a whole bunch of my train journey yesterday chatting via IM to a good friend of mine about motivation. I'll admit straight out that I'm not somebody who has an easy time with self-motivation on side projects. I agree to do too many things for too many people, then find it difficult to get started on any of them — or find myself switching wildly between them, like I'm spinning plates. In fact, that's part of the reason I was so anxious to launch this site — I wanted to get it finished, out there, complete.
At the time, I linked to a piece by Matt Brown, about his experience of starting a blog — in particular, trying to get into a regular pattern of writing. Since launching semibad I've tried to do the same — I'm not a particularly strong writer, and I realise that the only way to move past that is to practice regularly. I'm hoping to apply the same ideas to regular personal work — by making it public, and sticking to a schedule, I'm trying to get past my usual "I'm too busy\tired\lazy right now" line.
Matt's latest blog entry is essentially a follow-up to the post that originally grabbed my attention:
“ Without question, the single best piece of advice relating to the independent, freelance lifestyle, is to always be doing. Pack your days with action. ”
Start something, then finish it — my new motto.
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