Let’s begin with Yay! I am successfully finishing two years of my weekly. I am glad that in twists and turns of my life, I and my blog have held onto each other. This is the first post in my celebration series. Hope you enjoy this read.
Starting with sharing my challenges and the way I have faced or have tried to face each. The idea is to understand my challenges better by penning it here so that coming year of weekly improves.
Time
With work, study, travel and family as the priority, it was tough for me to also fit in the blog in my schedule. How did I then make it this far? The answer lies in all the writing time-crunched in my daily and weekly schedule.
I have done much of my blog writing while travelling in a local train, sometimes had ideas and have sat on platforms to pen the complete idea.
Being a morning person, many blog posts were completed before sunrise also at times. Worst were a few where I kept myself up late to finish, not much but yes I did have those all-nighters as well!
I had begun this weekly writing by posting every Sunday. I try hard to stick to this. I think I have posted on Sunday hardly five to six times. My posts got dragged into my week. But I made sure no week was missed. There were almost missed this week moments but didn’t let that happen even once and I believe that has been my biggest achievement!
Self-critique
I had mentioned so in one of my posts too that my biggest challenge is me. I don’t get impressed with me too soon. My blog journal has more rejected ideas than implemented ones. But I don’t stop ideating irrespective of crashing max of them.
As much as being harsh on me hinders my mental stability, it has worked positively for my work. I can surely say that this is the reason that my blog over the years hasn’t lost quality. There can be a few posts here and there but overall, it has maintained a standard.
There are a few people with whom I share my blog before I broadcast it to the world. These people help me keep it real. They give me a reality check with the quality of my posts. These are also the people who haunt me down each week for my post.
Courage to share
Ugh! I don’t know will I ever get over this challenge. I don’t share my blog much. A few broadcasts, that’s it. I am not a virtually active person, a few Instagram posts, little chats, that’s it.
It is not me to keep doing the virtual social thing. It becomes difficult to, therefore, to keep flagging my blog on all such platforms. I don’t know how to find a mid-way to this. Any suggestions on how to overcome or face this challenge you have, please write to me. Thank You.
@nisha_navgire for sharing any ideas.