Who’s it for? What’s the point?

I don’t know about the final destination. I’m not too concerned about exactly what’s at the end of this journey. What I'm really interested in is right now. And right now I find myself fighting the urge to leave out the pun that just popped into my head: Write now. Right now. Because that pun sums up the two reasons for creating this blog.

Write

The first reason is just to write. I’ve always kinda liked writing. Way back in school I was good at it. But I never pursued it. Whenever I've needed to write, I've enjoyed it and I think I've done a pretty good job. But I never thought of myself as a writer. So I've never put energy or focus into it. Until now. Now, I'm making a commitment to writing. I may not change the world. It may not be very good at the start. But that’s also kinda the point. You’ve gotta spend some time being bad before you can be any good. So here I am, ready to write badly for a while. Until, hopefully, one day in the not too distant future I can actually start writing well. After that, we’ll see what happens.

Now

The second reason is that one of my worst habits is procrastination. More specifically, I'm quite good at analysis paralysis. I have no trouble coming up with new ideas. But I tend to enjoy the thinking part more than the doing. When I do something, I like to do it well, so I like to really think out how it’s going to work, how it’s going to connect and what’s the best way to really make it sing. And if I really think about it, often it sees like it would be a shame to not do it all properly from the beginning, so probably best if I just wait until I've got some time to really think it through and do it right and well I haven’t got time for all that right now so I'll just do it… later. So this blog is also about defeating ‘the resistance’ as Steven Pressfield calls it. I’m going to focus on publishing as often as I can. Seth Godin, says every day. That scares me, which probably means it’s a good idea.

So here it is

Write now. Right now. I’ve started writing. And against all my better judgement I did it now. Unfiltered and unpolished but it is published.

To finish then, it’s just a matter of finding a topic. Already my head is bubbling with ideas and they don’t all fit neatly inside one circle. But the core of this blog will be my thoughts being a dad. My kids are my biggest passion. Like a great book, I can’t wait to find out what happens with them in the end, but I'm enjoying every page so much, I want to make sure I don’t miss a thing. How you balance that with everything else life has to offer? How you get some balance and some sanity amongst it all? Well, that’s what I’ll be thinking about. I hope you find some of it interesting.