I recently decided I wanted to up my twitter game. So I’ve set a goal to follow 5 people a day and be more active on twitter. I’ve been faithfully following more and more people and well so far… I’ve gained less followers than I have followed but thats okay. Slow and steady wins the race right?
Part of my new daily strategy is to create little “memes” with some thought I’ve had. It’s a nice daily discipline that requires a little bit of creativity and requires me to take something that has been floating around in my head and condense it down to clearly communicated idea, which is really not easy.
There’s a million ways you can say things. Words are hard. Communication is hard. So it’s a great exercise.
Sometimes I get stuck, and then I’ll ask input from my wife who majored in English.
Feedback is hard sometimes too, because I subconsciously want what I’m saying to sound a certain way, to include certain words and I’m coming at it from my own understanding of which my wife knows nothing about because I haven’t communicated those things.
Anyway… after a certain point I just have to publish what I’ve got. Today’s thought is above and it’s not A+ work it’s probably about a C. But I had to post it on instagram otherwise I’d keep revising and I’d kill it in the process and lose momentum.
I can always come back and revisit the thought and communicate it clearer next time.
The difference between posting something average, and feeling defeated and not posting anything is a small but huge difference. It seems minimal, but I really think it has an affect on my day. Because being productive even in small things helps push your momentum forward. If I wouldn’t have posted that meme (is a text graphic even considered a meme?) I probably wouldn’t be posting this blog, and who knows what momentum posting this blog will push me towards.
Be creative, share it with the world, don’t let perfectionism stop you, keep your momentum going, average or even below average work published is better than the defeat of no work. Fight fear and resistance. Publish.
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