A Quick Reset

Right — I owe you an explanation for the radio silence.

When I started this site, my goal was simple: one post per week. Sustainable, manageable, and realistic given everything else going on. But then, as I almost always do, I got carried away. I started thinking I could deliver more posts, I started aiming for every other day. More content equals more value, right?

Wrong.

What actually happened was a classic case of overcommitting myself into a corner. The backlog of personal admin started piling up — the kind of boring but essential stuff we all have to deal with. Life admin, but also my fitness and even my engagement at work were off as I was so focused on drafting and writing. This was only ever meant to be a creative outlet and it had immediately become a vice. I was trying to maintain this unsustainable posting schedule, and something had to give.

So I burnt out. Not dramatically, just that familiar feeling of having too many plates spinning at once. First it was delaying the drafting until I’d done some evening work calls, then the life admin crept in, before long I noticed I had been avoiding getting back into it as I had somehow ‘failed’ already.

This is exactly the kind of behaviour I’d probably write about avoiding in a post about financial planning or goal-setting. The irony isn’t lost on me. Truth be told, it’s a classic outcome for me when I start a new project.

Getting Back to Basics

I’m going back to the original plan: roughly one post per week. It’s a frequency that actually works with real life rather than fighting against it. The content will be the same quality – probably better, since I won’t be rushing to hit an arbitrary posting schedule.

The next post will be about recognising the value of time, which feels particularly relevant given what I’ve just done. Sometimes the most important lesson comes from your own mistakes.

Thanks for bearing with me. Normal service resumes shortly.