This Might Be Crap

For many years I had a strong blogging practice, but somewhere along the line in my quest to build a sustainable business I let the writing and blogging go in favor of focusing on creating courses, podcasting, writing emails, building my email list and seeing clients.  It’s not that all of the things I just listed aren’t important, they are, they are vitally important, but I miss blogging. I miss writing to all of you and sharing what’s on my heart regularly.  I miss writing to the folks who’ve been watching my journey and today I’ve decided it’s time to get back to my blogging roots. 

The inspiration hit while on my long run this morning, an 8-mile loop around Salem-Lake here in NC. I was listening to Marie Forleo’s podcast where she interviewed Seth Godin on his new book called “The Practice”.  All of the concepts that they talked about aside from one, are concepts that I believe in and practice over and over, as well as encourage my clients to engage in and practice too.  Marie and Seth’s conversation is what’s inspired me to recommit to my blogging practice, not necessarily because it will build my business, but because it’s an important practice. Blogging made me a better writer and it was important to me purely because I enjoyed it.   

When I think deeply about the real reason I let my blogging practice fall to the waste side, it’s because I felt like maybe I had run out of ideas, I felt like I’d run out of important or interesting things to say.  I felt like my writing was crap and when I was putting work out into the world that I was really proud of it was so honest, and so vulnerable to share with everyone who was reading, so it was a part of me that was hard and scary to share.  But blogging helped me show up. Writing helps me sort out what I actually believe for myself. Writing is a way for me to show up for myself and show my work even when it’s crap.  I believe the showing up and the doing it is way more important than the end product. It’s that way for me in running, so why wouldn’t it be that way for me in writing too?

So here is what I’m doing, and what I’m committing to.  I’m going back to blogging and my plan is to blog Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday indefinitely.  I won’t blog on Tuesday because that’s the day I release my podcast and that’s important content for me that I don’t want to distract from.  What I’m going to be putting out might be crap most of the time but sometimes, hopefully, every once in a while, it might be great.  For me the practice and the process of showing up for myself and to all of you is what’s most important so that’s what I’ll be getting back to, writing consistently and the process of sharing what I’m writing consistently.

 What practices and processes do you most want to recommit to?  What’s stopping you?  Comment below and let me know what you want to recommit to and what your “by when date” to begin again will be.

Together we rise,
-Alisha