Resolutions Are Meant To Be Broken.
We are nearly into the fourth month of this year, and I have broken my New Year’s resolutions several times over. I haven’t come close to posting once a week, and I haven’t even finished one book yet, but I have started several and bought several more.
But in my defense to breaking the promises that I made to myself, that effects no one else but me, I have been very busy. You see, I am getting married the first weekend in May (Whoo Hoo!) and I have been putting quite a bit of energy, emotions, time and other things that takes one away from blogging and reading books into that. This process of engagement has become much more taxing than I expected. And it doesn’t come from my adorable fiancee, as some would expect. She has been far more gracious and understanding than I probably would be through this time. I have not only been trying to become a better future husband and take care of my details of the wedding, but I also lead the twentysomethings- ministry of our church. And while getting married and leading a ministry are both exciting and a privilege, to think you can do them both well and at the same time is dumb.
So, the only reason that either of them might be pulled off well, is because of the other people in my life that make it possible. From my fiancee to my family to my friends I owe them all a great deal of gratitude. In fact so much that I’m not even going to attempt to express it through this entry.
But I may be sensing a series of posts coming about a young guy leading a new ministry and future family through the growing stages of life. But not without your help. I need you to keep me accountable to keeping up with the entries. Please, leave a comment about your interest in hearing from me about this or if you have some advice to offer on the subject. Thanks.
I have no advice on how to keep up with a posting schedule as I cannot seem to stick with it myself (I figure, my blog is my own little world where I get to make the rules, therefore I have no rules). BUT, I am very interested in your blog and reading your posts, so keep them coming!
One bit of advice I am trying to take: I saw a podcast somewhere by someone who apparently is a famous writer saying that he has never had writers block . . . writers block, he says, comes from the fear that what you are writing isn’t great, so you end up writing nothing. In reality, he says, very little of what anyone writes is great, the point is to just keep writing and not be hindered by fear.
Thanks, Jess.
Question: In your own little blog world, does gravity exist? ‘Cause if we can fly in your blog world, I want to go to there.
Also, that bit of advice from that famous writer from that one podcast where he said that one thing about not writing, really struck a chord with me. Check out the other site I’m responsible for updating, http://www.thewellnp.org, I just posted on a conversation The Well had about the Fear of Failure. AND, I’m reading Tribes by Seth Godin, he says that the fear of failure is overrated because we’re really afraid of criticism.
I know that’s quite the response, but I thought it was cool how everything tied together.