File under: Don't beat yourself up

One step in the right direction is better than standing still.
Even a teeny tiny little baby step.

And- even though I know some will disagree- I also believe standing still is better than a step in the wrong direction.

After all, something doesn't have to be a million bazillion times better just to be better.

Seriously.
Stop beating yourself up for not doing ENOUGH, for there are those out there who will never recognize the contributions of others as "enough".

Just give a good try, make an honest effort.
The people who want you to be perfect before they'll give you the time of day are not perfect either. And truth be told, even though they won't let you know it, they themselves recognize their own imperfection. (Usually.)

Yo, Check It Out

I just finished putting labels on all my posts on this blog.
Woot!
Yeah!

Tiny Pieces of Depression

Every time I try to clean up around here, I find bits of paper covered with ideas for blog posts that I never finished and published. Some are full sheets of paper, that have most of the post fleshed out, and would only need a bit of editing (plus typed, of course. Not always as easy a matter as it sounds depending on how arthritic I feel that day, but not exactly an insurmountable obstacle.)

I have no doubt there are at least 100 posts laying around here that never materialized. Some are dated by the time I see them again and get thrown out right away. Others, though, are timeless, or at least will be so until we live in a perfect world. ha ha.

Often I start writing enthusiastically, then I tell myself, "You know, no one reads your blog anyway. This is a waste of time." Typically, I have no clue what else I'd be doing with that time, but tell myself it's a waste anyway. That's just how depressed logic goes.

But I realize, hey, you've just outlined for yourself a good reason why you don't have much readership- hello- not many posts.

So...

I am going to resurrect from the heap what I still feel is relevant, whether I wrote it a week ago or 5 years ago.

Have fun.

last year

I made 24 posts in this blog.
That was my high, by far.
An average of 2 a month, even though two blog entries per month totally isn't what happened.
And this has been a lesson in the misleading nature of statistics.

Holy Crap, it's a blog post.

Yes. Once again I have decided if I am going to have a blog i might as well post in it. Novel idea, yes? The good thing is, it's still been less than a year since my last post. Impressive.
Of course, it's not a post about anything.
But if I say it is a post about nothing that's like I'm referencing Seinfeld or something since I seem to recall the pitch for it was that it's a show about nothing.
And this post is not about Seinfeld.

But maybe I should tag it with Seinfeld anyway and see if that gets me any readers. Let's try it. I'll let you know. Hopefully before next year.