Slipping

The picture is completely and utterly a clickbait image from an old set of self portraits somewhere from 2017 and it has little to none to do with what I’m about to write. Let me know if the picture worked and that is why you opened the post, and tell me how disappointed you are that there isn’t more.

A couple weeks back I posted about slowing down my posting pace for a while because I haven’t had many days off in the past year and I needed some time for so called real life. I don’t remember how I phrased it but I felt the early stages of a burnout creeping in, regarding photography and creating posts. Having let blogging consume me as a whole for over a year was starting to show. I was having the constant feeling that I need to be creating something pretty much all waking hours.

I had been posting approximately twice a day for a year, and needed to cut back for a while. I was going to reduce the posting pace for one per day, with two posts here and ther. Doesn’t sound too bad, post per day, most people do far far less.

It felt good to take a step back and live some real life instead of constanstly trying to create some new material for the blog. I have only been photographing and posting what I actually really wanted to do for myself, and not just create out of necessity.

The problem with being your own boss and giving yourself some slack is that it’s easy to start slipping further away from your goals. Wow, only took me four paragraphs to get to my point, I really am slipping!

Reducing the workload and time spend on the blockchain started from having about ten active posts(pending payout) to then going for seven active ones and soon I was saying to myself that I don’t have to post every day. It’s a slippery slope the laziness. If I don’t start whipping my own ass now, I’ll soon be taking days off all the time and before I know it, I’m living on my parents basement.

The sloth-gene in me is strong and what I have found out about myself in the past year is that keeping consistency helps a lot. Setting myself a weekly amount of posts I have to make and sticking with it for basically 52 weeks was a good roll to be in. It becomes a habit, more than anything, and it’s easier to stick with than vague limits of working when I ”feel like it.”

I almost had the whole weekend away from the blockchain just now, how scandalous! While I did have quite a lot of fun and I saw real life people, which is always good for a hermit like myself, it’s a slippery slope. I give myself a little too much reins and I can easily loose all control.

I really really need to start getting back to blogging for real, before I loose all of this. While other people are doing the Tipaton Tammikuu, a booze-free January, I feel like I’ve been doing Steemit-free January. Soon it’s February and I need to get back to business. The days are getting longer fast and every day there is about five minutes more of daylight. I’m getting excited about it and I have quite a lot of ideas I want to get working on in terms of self portraits.

That is it for today, I just wanted to let you in on what is going on inside my head, thanks for reading!