I almost gave up writing for this reason (and it destroyed my mental health)

I almost gave up writing because I was looking for instant gratification. I wanted to have thousands of people reading everything I wrote and getting value from it.

I wanted to make thousands of dollars every month from this blog. But I was so focused on what a blog could do for me, that I lost focus on what I could do for my blog. I just watched this video from Ali Abdaal where he talked about how it was the decision to get started that put him in the situation to make millions of dollars online. It was the decision to blog that gave him more confidence to start his YouTube channel. In that video, Ali talks about this book called “show your work” by Austin Kleon. In the interview with Austin that Ali did, Austin talks about how writing every day and getting in the habit of it is great to help make sense of your own thoughts.

I realized that this is the reason why I had been feeling unlike myself lately. I did not have an outlet to get the thoughts out that I was having. I wanted to share and document the things I’ve been learning with the world, but I had been too lazy to do that. I wanted to make this blog post as an intro to my stream of consciousness where I can blog about thoughts and lessons that I learn.

I am writing this post from my phone because after watching that video, I could not wait until I got home and got in front of my laptop to write this. I wanted this blog post to serve as a reminder for me and for anyone who is like me that is struggling to post consistently to just go ahead and post! Because you never know, you may end up helping someone with your blog post, additionally, you may end up helping yourself.