Blogging is hard

I initially started this blog because of a challenge from my friend Naomi Takeuchi - she decided to start blogging *daily* (and she did, for quite a while).

I knew that I would never be able to do that, so I just posted sporadically. And then 16 months went by, and I hadn't posted.

No good.

So what keeps me from posting? I certainly want to make sure I'm writing something worthwhile, something of value. I know not many care about the minutia of my daily life, as we all have that - and my particular minutia is no more interesting than anyone elses'!

I certainly can truthfully claim that I am busy - but really, who isn't? I love traveling and visiting friends, but weekends where I get stuff done are particularly satisfying. Of course, combining the two is even better!

That said, the real reason is the constant struggle to make posts worthwhile - when really, posts that are "good enough" would yield not only more content, but likely are better than I think they are. This is not applicable only to my highly irregular blog postings - it is applicable to my entire life, it seems!

It is a case of Voltare's adage: Perfect is the enemy of the good (or to paraphrase, Perfect is the enemy of done.) How many projects have I postponed, half-completed, or spent WAY too much time on? Too many to count. I have to stop trying to achieve that 100% perfect, because the 80/20 rule applies: the last 20 percent takes 80 percent of the time!

This is solvable, with deliberate attention to how I work on things - and it does not mean that I will work with no attention to detail. It is a fuzzy balance between detail and speed.

But it is not the only challenge...