It’s easy to spend a lot of time diddling with margins and headers and colors and font choices.
If you work on a platform like WordPress, you can lose yourself for hours tweaking this setting and that one and this one again.
But in all that time working on the blog – you haven’t actually written a dadgum thing.
Oops. Sorry. I’m supposed to be using first person.
But in all that time working on the blog – I haven’t actually written a dadgum thing. Which was the whole point of having said dadgum blog in the first place.
Can you believe spellcheck doesn’t recognize ‘dadgum’?
It’s safe, I think, to tweak little things … to sorta dance around the circumference. Because you get immediate feedback that you’ve made some small difference without getting in there and maybe getting dirty or even bloody.
But does it really get you closer to anything meaningful?
Are you canoodling with the relatively inconsequential? I’ve been doing that a lot lately, that’s why I ask.
For you, maybe it’s your website. Maybe it’s your latest productivity app. Maybe it’s _________.
Maybe it’s time we both stopped workin’ on the blog and started workin’ in the blog. Or the to-do list. Or the family.
Maybe.
It’s the quilting, sewing, crafting, that’s sitting half-done. I can move stuff around and rearrange and clean and sort and it doesn’t get me any closer to getting a project completed.
Do the scary stuff first – that’s the lesson I keep failing to get on most days. Some days I actually do it, and those days are great. Some days I put the scary stuff off till mid-morning and it works out OK. Some days I put it off till after lunch, and it may or may not get done before quittin’ time, and then I end up staying up late to get it done, or it gets pushed off until the next morning. Not good. So why do I do it? Why do I prefer diddling with the meh stuff to getting in there and *doing it*?
Anywho, you’re not alone, Tim. You are not alone.