@colinwalker Huge congrats, Colin! This post really resonated with me, along with Matt’s which I recently — and ironically — reread about a week ago. Part of my lack of writing has been due to so much going in my life, but that’s just it; pushing through distractions is important. However the other part is me being a perfectionist, and holding back until I have something that feels worthy. It’s so easy to give ourselves these virtual yardsticks, and then fail to measure up to our own lofty standards.

Today is an important day in my blogging calendar – the anniversary of my decision in 2016 to reboot everything and return to the blog after what was more than two years away. I've written about this on a number of occasions over the years, largely saying similar things each time, but feel it's worth returning to on each anniversary to remind myself why I do this, why I always return to the blog no matter how many breaks I take or for how long. As I remarked last year, it took nearly a year to get back into my stride and put 'the old way' of blogging behind me. In reality I went full circle and ret... colinwalker.blog

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@colinwalker Huge congrats, Colin! This post really resonated with me, along with Matt’s which I recently — and ironically — reread about a week ago. Part of my lack of writing has been due to so much going in my life, but that’s just it; pushing through distractions is important. However the other part is me being a perfectionist, and holding back until I have something that feels worthy.

It’s so easy to give ourselves these virtual yardsticks, and then fail to measure up to our own lofty standards.

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