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Heyyyy Cupcakes!?
It's been well over a minute(a year). Quick update; Covid-19 is still around, and its nastier twin is trying to make an appearance?. We're not even about to mention its name because we REBUKEEEE all it entails. Let's keep on staying safe, though! Far too important!
Toooooo the matter at handddd, hm.
I've been writing for a very long time. I can't pinpoint when I wrote my first inspired piece, but it's pushing a decade. The thing about me, though, is I've never been able to freelance write without a theme or some passion. It's really worried me. I wrote physical and Wattpad stories and novels for most of my JHS years, and it all just died soon after BECE. In 2019, I picked up the passion again, but I had no motivation, and it died. In 2020, I started to get a lot of compliments and encouraging words about a couple of short pieces I'd put up on my WhatsApp status, so I enthusiastically started this blog. I was honestly a little tense about how it'd turn out, given my past experiences, but I forged ahead. Here we are. I wrote 6 pieces on here, and when the 7th piece got a little too hard, I just gave up. I'm sensing we've seen the tiresome little pattern here.
I'm growing up, and real life is coming at me harddd and fast. What I want to do and who I want to be. I'm maturing in a world where there's very little hope for career success outside entrepreneurship. It's not a comforting thought for me. Reality is dictating to me that the comfort zone that has been a haven and a coping mechanism my whole life needs to vanish...pronto. It's terrifying.
Blessed to be born with good brains and willpower, I've been trying to figure out what I can do to break into the entrepreneurship industry, and a good idea or two have popped up. The only problem? I'm also a severe procrastinator, and I can subconsciously clock out when I lose interest and discipline. The thing, though? Adulting is already a scam, and I genuinely cannot live like this while trying to manœuvre my growth. So, in a bid to change who I am, I racked my brains to the biggest or worst hobbies and interests I've thrown away because of laziness, complacency, indiscipline, loss of interest, procrastination etc., and writing was the blaring red flag thought that popped up. The only way to grow is to show up.
The thing with my writing is that I need to be inspired. The thing, too, is that inspiration won't always come. In the real world, a lack of motivation does not give you a pass if you screw up. So, the idea is this. Every month from today, the 15th of June, 2022, till a year elapses, I'm going to write something and post it. I will give myself from the 12th to the 19th of every month till the 19th of June, 2023, to come up with 11 additional articles. A year from now, we will review how far I've come.
I think that if I can cultivate the habit of being consistent once a month, I can gradually and eventually increase my consistency rate. What you'll read ankasa di33r(the content), gye Nyame ? but please bear with me?. It sounds simple and easy, and I hope I will thoroughly stick to it. (About to set alarms and everything). Because what's the harm in being consistent? The time will pass, anyway.
Anyway, that is not the only thing I need to work on, but what I've shared is what is relevant for this post. So, if any other procrastinator wants to share the journey with me, let's go.
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