Why Inspiration Cannot Be on a Deadline
It is no secret that I haven’t exactly been on top of my blogging game for the past year or so — I’ll admit it. It’s a hard truth to hit you in the face, when the project you have been working so hard on for years just takes a seat on the back burner. I felt so guilty not publishing blog posts as consistently as I used to, as my corporate job had a full-time hold on my attention span, and the last thing I wanted to do after 8 hours of staring at a computer screen was to stare at more computer screens to work on my blog. The imposter syndrome came into full force, making me re-think my blog and if it should even continue existing. But then, after all of these months, it finally clicked for me….
Inspiration cannot be on a deadline.
This was not something easy to grasp, as I felt like I constantly had to have new & inspiring ideas at the forefront of my mind, ready to crank out at a moment’s whim. And that concept alone was stressing me the f*&% out. So, after a while of typing in my Notes app with the ideas that came across my train of thought when driving to and from work, the wheels finally started to turn with ease. I felt my creative spirit finally coming back, and with less judgement about what blog posts to post & when. It was so relieving to realize that my blog posts about topics I find inspirational do not have to have a deadline — they can just come and go, just as inspiration does.
When you think about your favorite content creators always busting out new content, such as a new podcast or a new business product, how do you think they do it? Do you think that these content creators are constantly grinding out new announcements with each project being worked simultaneously? No… not in the slightest. Rather, when you dig deeper on the unfiltered side of content creation, you come to find out that these projects have been taking months and years to finalize, and it came down to making the news public with timing made just right. Can you imagine the burnout that would happen if we were constantly working on new ideas, with no time for breaks or new ideas to come through? That was what I was experiencing — constant burnout with no end in sight. And I wanted that to change. I wanted to ease the stress on myself and not force a post to go up until I felt like the moment was just right to do so. I didn’t want to publish a blog post just because it was time to do so. I wanted to publish blog posts I was proud of releasing publicly, in hopes of inspiring someone one way or another.
Another thing that goes hand in hand with inspiration, is motivation. The inspiring thought can be there, but the motivation must also be there in order for the inspiring thought to become actualized. Motivation can become the catalyst for new ideas to rise to the surface, but you also must be disciplined enough to use that motivation to drive your inspiration. Make sense? It still doesn’t make full sense to me, but I am still working on grasping this concept of utilizing my motivation when available, to make my ideas come to life.
Some of the blog posts I am excited to share with you all include:
Tools that I have used to manage my anxiety
Communication skills I learned in college & still use in daily life
What is loud budgeting, and how you can apply it
Why I will always be an advocate for mental health
The creative process behind making a blog post is something I am still trying to perfect to work in the best way for me. And I hope you all will stick along with me as I continue learning something new every day about blogging, even though I have been in the “blogging game” since 2018.
