Be kind to yourself

15.11.23

This is a short description of the blog post.

In the process of working to be a better self we will have times where we might be too hard on ourselves. At least that is true for me.

I started the “Good Enough Blog” about a week ago. I’ve been wanting to share my words for many years but my need for perfection and fear of failing kept me from even starting. A week ago I started sharing my words on this blog with the only goal of sharing everyday and doing it for myself.

Yesterday I failed. I forgot to share my words and didn’t even realize it until this morning. I got busy with life. My first reaction was shame for forgetting and the need to make up for not posting yesterday. Right away I thought that I needed to write double today. One post for yesterday and one for today.

Yesterday was a decent day. I spent time with my family and worked out with a friend in the afternoon. If I didn’t think about writing, it was because I was being present, which is a good thing. I think that good enough in this case is admitting that yesterday was a good day, I forgot to write and that is okay, I will write today but not to make up for yesterday.

One important thing I should mention is that I don’t have any blog posts writing in advance. I write them right before I upload them to my site. I also don’t have a CMS (like for example Wordpress) so the process of uploading a new post requires me to:

1. Write the blog post in plain text
2. Create a new html page and convert my post to html so that it looks good on my site
3. Edit the blog page to include the new blog post
4. Push the changes to my repository so that it is available for everyone that visit my site

It is not a very complicated process but it requires a little more than just writing a text and pushing “publish”.

I thought that my next post was going to be about one of the chapters in “My Life Guidebook”. Instead here is a reminder of not being too hard on yourself. I know I need that reminder. As for today, this is good enough.