When I started this blog, I swore…SWORE…I was going to post every week. Over a month and a half after my last post, I realize that may have been a little ambitious. I actually have felt anxious that weeks have gone by without a word from me, but I set myself up for that. I didn’t sign a contract obligating me to post every week.
What got me think about this was a few days ago, I received an email from WordPress informing me that Stupid Anxiety may have experienced a FATAL ERROR!! OMG! NO! This can’t happen! I’m just about at 50% to figuring out how to run this thing! I quickly logged in. Everything looked OK, and by that, I mean the same as before. My front page still isn’t the way I want it, but the “fatal error” didn’t undo what I had already done.
But that is when I saw I hadn’t posted since May 28, 2022. All of June and half of July gone, and nothing. At first, I thought, “That is just poor blogmanship.” However, I don’t want to write just for the sake of writing something (like this current post, for example). If something comes up that seem like it would be cool to write about, I will write. No more self-imposed deadlines.
Because once I set a deadline, then it becomes a chore, and once it becomes a chore, then I will avoid it.
The issue of anxiety and avoidance will most certainly be a future post, but I won’t tie myself to an exact date for that. Because no more deadlines.