So this is my 161st blog in a row, 3 straight years, never missed one, I am pretty proud of that. But upon reviewing some of my posts, I find an awful lot of repetition, the same theme over and over. Some I can tell what was going on at that time and the blog brings me back to that moment. Some are cookie cutter blogs that bring back no memory of where I was at that time in my training. I must admit I am disappointed in myself for that. There are supposed to be a tale of my Kung Fu journey, not a Saturday night rerun.
This brings me to a bigger problem I am having. I have started to notice that I am compartmentalizing my training (this sounds like a good next blog subject). My blog is separate from my training, my training separate from my daily life, my daily life is separate from my Kung Fu. Everything is given a chunk/allotment of time. When it's time is up, done or not, it is time to move on. This is causing me to cut short things in my life that need a much more attention, I need to blur the lines a little and blend more Kung Fu into everything I do.
Blogging is unfortunately one of those things that I have whittled down the time I spend doing so I can free up time for other things, and because of that, the quality of my blogs have plummeted. And that is affecting other aspects of my training as well. I now spend so much time lamenting over the quality of my blog that it cause me to not focus on the here and now because I am constantly thinking about trying to my make my next blog better. Catch 22. I need to be mindful of what I am doing at any given moment, but, I need to be mindful of what would make a good blog, and so on.....
I am looking forward to next years blogging requirements, 30 extra blogs. That's right 30 extra, on top of my weekly blogs. If this doesn't kick my blog quality up a notch, well, at least I now know that I am never going to be the next big Canadian author.
I don't know if this blog came across the way I wanted it to, but maybe 162 will.
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