There's so many things I want to write about... building an impact movement to get people to want to join, remote working while managing a company, trying to understand what Madeira needs, what co-living communities are like, ideas on how to make intergenerational communities work, repopulating villages based on need, having an awesome team to build culture at work with, the things that wake me up in the middle of the night and then don't let me sleep for hours on end...
But when I open up a new post to create, I stare at a blank page and nothing comes out. Thoughts of self-doubt, of "who wants to read another travel blog" and "but how could I potentially help people with this?" and "why would anyone want to read this?", come up and the project-manager in me suddenly has a visual of an overcomplicated Venn Diagram with 18 circles and I get overwhelmed in trying to figure out where the overlap is.
So my dear friend, Anna, decided to start a writing group. And here I am following my own suggestion of "maybe just take 5-10 minutes to write your own stuff and see what happens". No pressure. No having to have had to figure out the format, the style, the audience, my voice, the mission. Just start. And maybe the rest will follow (and maybe it won't, and that's ok too!)
I've enjoyed writing this blog in the past and I've enjoyed reading the posts afterwards (even if it's cringeworthy sometimes), so in the end, I am writing for myself :) At the same time, if there's anything you think would be particularly interesting or enjoyable for you to read, please let me know! Please be my muse ;)
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