Surviving, Striving, Thriving
I have been here on Hive since May 2021. It makes around eight months of my journey here. Throughout this journey I couldn't maintain the inconsistency in my presence. There were some months when I hardly published three or four posts. I think the maximum number of posts I could publish in a week was four (except the time when I was writing for newbie initiative. At that I think, I could publish maximum five a week. Anyways!!). This is the very first time I received this 👇 notification from hive.buzz.
I published every day of the week. It is how my first week of 2022 has gone. It is not just about how 2022 has begun. It is also about how 2021 has ended. Lol. I had actually published for consecutively 10 days since 29th December, and during those 10 days I published more than 10 posts. It never happened before. It's an accomplishment I should appreciate and I am happy about it.
However, I would confess that some of the posts I published during this period were not of the standard I used to make in past. My self- imposed standards have restrained me from writing and publishing many times. I often didn't write on a topic with a fear that I may not reach a healthy word count. Sometimes, I didn't write thinking that this particular thing is not worth writing. At other times, I didn't write on the topics worth writing (as per my thoughts. Lol) because I didn't find enough time to finish them perfectly. This way, most of the time I was not writing
After two months of almost complete absence, I came back with a passion to express whatever. I told myself "The most important thing is expression. Not the wallet. Not the upvotes. Not the reputation. Not the followers. NOT EVEN WHAT OTHERS THINK. Free yourself. The most important thing is to You just need to express yourself."
I wrote and expressed only about my day to day happening. I just wrote to share and express whatever was going on. If I strived for writing awesome posts this time too, I wouldn't have published with consistency.
The struggle for awesomeness is good but we are not always in the very best circumstances. If we only want to come up with polished version, we can appear less often. There is a need to value our raw-self. If we start expressing our rawness with confidence, we would realize how much more potential and attractiveness resides in us. That's what I have been trying to do this time.
I am not sure how long I would go with this mindset. Hehehe. The want for perfectionism keeps on hitting me. I am in a battle with it continuously. I need to combat it if I want to survive and survival is important if I have to thrive.
See this post for details.
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True and Raw. Hehe.
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I never knew that hive buzz gives this notification too hehe. It's good of you to have started this year with new motivation and zeal. I guess you will be missing your absence from the writer's block.
Going to take it as an instruction for this week hehe. Keep rocking sis❤
Lol. It means you also haven't posted for a week. Well, I knew this since quite beginning.
There was never a writer's block so far. These are the fears of not bringing the best that stop me.
I wrote it spontaneously. Lol. Then I realized that's what I need to make my mind understand.
Very good @amberkashif
Well done my friend
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I will check out the tool. Thanks for the suggestion 🌷
If I was around you when you were typing all these words, I would have fanned your head to calm down.
Damn!
You've got a different motivation.
It's quite alright and appealing.
Share your opinion and thoughts. That's what differentiates hive from others.
Thank for being yourself dear friend.
Do have a lovely day.
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Hahahaha! You wouldn't need so. I was quite at peace. Lol.
To share our opinions openly we need to give ourselves the importance. People listen to us when we ourselves have positive view of our thoughts.
Thanks for the curation and your lovely comment @ddn688. Blessed day 🌷
Yeah. Sharing an opinion has to do with knowing the real meaning and manner to which the topic should be discussed.
It's helps in getting more listeners.
You were really relaxed while writing the post.
Do have a lovely day.
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You shouldn't beat yourself up too much. Most of us have that perfection default and it's reflected in how we stop ourselves from publishing because we think it might not be perfect.
When I joined hive newly, I had the same default thinking too. At a point, I decided I wasn't going to limit myself to perfection anymore.
I write, and the more I did, the more, I was able to dig into myself, and write more. Before I knew it, I was able to just look at an event and turn it into a post.
Gradually, I am learning and evolving and yes, I have been getting these notifications too from hivebuzz especially those weeks I don't miss a day .
I am happy you are getting into yourself too and write regardless of the rewards, upvotes, or what people say. Cheers to a new you.
Oh! Here she is with a post under my post ☺
I see you already writing quite well. Well-worded and well- organized. You have been learning and evolving and progressing and expressing with a rapid pace. More powers to you, sweetie.
This perfection thing is not new to me. I always submitted my assignments at the last date during my academic life. It was not because I started late. I kept on making them better and better until the date of submission came. I am not sure if this is a new me. I am in a battling phase.
Haha, I am couldn't help, you always inspired me to talk plenty 😂😂
Here she goes again, encouraging me when I was trying to encourage her... Lol. Thanks alot for your constant support and appreciation ma'am. I appreciate you always.
Don't worry too much, I am pretty sure you'll be able to pull through this battle, and emerge victorious. Cheers to you. ❤️
God bless you, sweetie ❤
And bless you too, ma'am ❤️
oh my, I can so relate to this..." stop seeking perfection and just seek expression"💗
I hear you Amber...I don't post daily because I find that when I write, I write, research, write, review, tighten, reword, ...etc etc...I feel like when I read my own work back to myself, I have to love it myself before I can release it. Sometimes I release something and I'm not completely happy...and then...I'm not completely happy !LOLZ. I prefer to feel happy hehe. So it's a slower process. I completely get what you mean! It's so nice to hear someone else that has similar issues 😊 although I'm sorry you have similar issues. I think maybe I need to trust myself more, as you are doing, and just let go earlier ... but how do we do that when we want it to be perfect for ourselves? 😂💞 I am challenging myself to get better at focussing quicker... the last few posts I managed to write in a single day ...so that's a start. I am really pleased you are back writing again💞
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Oh @samsmith1971 , you are already so good at writing, aren't you? I find you too much active in the comment section. It is something I am trying to achieve but I am not successful yet.
I have realized I can't write regularly unless Ibstep out of this perfection desire. Hehe. I knew it since the beginning yet it is a continuous battle, sometimes I take over the desire. At other times the desire take over me, but the fact is expression need not to be perfect. If I would want to shoot for the best vocabulary or learn the best way of expression, my whole life would spend on learning and there won't be a single word from my side. (You know, speaking and writing in another language lowers down our creativity and expression multi folded) and the fear destroys our expression completely. Lol, so it is better to express less than to express nothing
Never be afraid to express... those who want to listen will be here to listen. You will have your own audience. I love reading your works and I don't have any difficulty with them whatsoever. i think they are poignant and beautiful, thought provoking. Just keep being you...and I will take a feather out of your cap and not seek perfection all the time too, rather more expression. love you Amber and thank you for that lesson ❣️ !LUV !ALIVE
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ive had many breaks from HIVE because I felt it took to much from me, there have times when I have fallen off but its always here to come back to. Dont worry life is life and we are not robots.
That's the best advice. Hehe, a consoling one