Sketchy Beginnings: A Kickoff to My Blogging Days

Since I don’t know what I’m doing, I figured I’d write about not knowing what we’re doing. This is my first blog post, and naively, I thought I’d give myself 30 minutes, gather my thoughts, and write something informative but witty, serious but not the boring kind, insightful but… you get the idea.

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Three hours later, I figured I’d make a point out of the experience itself.

In Atomic Habits, author James Clear suggests that the reason we don’t start and/or follow through with our habits is due to one of these reasons:

1. We forget: it’s not an obvious thing to remember.
2. We don’t care: we remember, but it’s not worth it.
3. We think it’s hard (perceived or real): we set the bar too high.
4. We’re not paid: it doesn’t offer immediate satisfaction upon completion.

It’s difficult to start—especially when we don’t know what we’re doing. But at the end of the day, I’ll officially become a blogger, which, up until today, was just a dream.

So… what have you been putting off? What’s the simplest task you can do to adopt the persona of it?

Sketch on a napkin, and you’re a sketch artist. Maybe not a good one—but you actually sketched, and that’s what a sketch artist does.