So I’ve been thinking about starting up a blog for a while. Through a mixture of indecisiveness, over-thinking and just plain laziness I haven’t started writing until now.
My main obstacle was thinking about what to write about. At first I thought I could write a blog about moving to Vancouver and all my adventures here. But I couldn’t help telling myself....who cares about that? I’m sure that’d be a fairly boring read. Also, as I write I’ve been here 6 months already. It’s slightly late for a travel blog surely?
I then thought I’d write a blog where I’d drop knowledge and blow your minds. But who am I kidding? I’m incredibly simple, that blog would be very short lived.
I then played with the idea of writing anecdotes of the many stupid and embarrassing things I’ve got up to over the years. But would I want my life out there for everybody to see like that? Plus I’m just an average guy. It seems pretty egotistical and indulgent to write out what would practically be a biography.
So I’ve been letting these ideas swim around in my head for a few months now, debating in my mind whether a blog is a good idea or not and just like a lot of my other ideas, it doesn’t come to fruition. But I recently read a book called The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. It talks about the creative mind, writers block, resistance and how you can overcome that.
It also talks about the muse and how we’re all connected to this one consciousness and we’re actually just physical beings that translate all that creative energy into the world. But that’s just silly. It distracts from what is otherwise an intelligent and insightful read that I’d recommend to anybody.
I digress.
The thing about resistance, it stops you from achieving your goals. It gets to you through self doubt, fear, rationalization, fear of success or in my case, ego. After all, the whole reason I’ve been debating back and forth about whether a blog is a good idea or not is because I’m ultimately thinking, what would the reader think of this?
So this is me taking in the advice of The War of Art. This is me overcoming resistance. Forgetting ego. Just getting on my arse and just writing. Typing on my keyboard just to get into the motion of typing and getting my mind working. Even if it is the ramblings of a mad man.
I don’t know if the blog will be any good. I don’t know if it would even last that long. But it’ll be nice to share something with all you people of blogville. It’ll be cool to watch this thing evolve and maybe turn from brainfarts into something that might actually be entertaining or interesting and actually worth reading. It’d also be fun to see what sort of shit comes out of my head in the future.
...and anyway....I am egotistical and indulgent....so there!
