Archive for December, 2008
Thought: motivation paralysis
Let’s face it, I got lazy.
I started this thing blog posting regularly. Then I had a few things come up, a trip back, moving across town, the holidays, etc. In some ways I feel that I would have kept up with this better had I never established any goals for how this site should go. First, I limited the scope of the posts to design-related material. What the hell does that even mean? Second, I told myself that I would make x number of posts regarding subjects a, b, and c, every month. That leads me to this question: Do goals really inherently drive people? The goals I made for this site had no real payoff. It’s the difference between saying ‘I want to do x’ and ‘I want to do x because it will bring me long-term success (or what have you).’ Basically what I’m getting at is that I am not going to worry about it going forward. If I don’t publish anything for a couple months, then I don’t. This will serve as an outlet for whatever I want to rant about. Chances are it will be about Design (I still don’t know what that means but as a Designer I will take the approach of ‘you’ll know it when you see it’), but I am not going to hold myself to it either.
For those of you that have read and responded to my posts, thanks. I hope you continue to read.
Sidenote: I always look at my posts and wonder if I have written enough, as if there was a length necessary to make a post worthwhile.