This week’s group post asks us about our motivation to blog, and Krikket gives us a set of prompts. Here they are, with my answers.
Q: What tricks do you use to keep yourself motivated when something feels impossible?
Bricolage. Roughly -breaking things down into managable chunks and keeping check lists and other tricks to keep me realising that I am moving forward.
Q: What are your blogging goals? Do you think participating in Blaugust is getting you closer to where you want be?
I don’t have any blogging goals. My aim for this month is to blog my daily create (rather than just completing it), and I suppose Blaugust is ensuring that I keep to that.
Q: What do you think you’ll get out of completing your Blaugust goals?
31 TDCs published to my blog
Q: What drives you to blog?
I am often motivated to blog because of community activities. So this group project motivated me to write this post. More generally, then if I feel like blogging, then I blog. If I don’t, then I don’t. I don’t feel worried or guilty if I am not blogging. I have some regular posts so my blog is never quiet for long- every Sunday I post my Silent Sunday image to my blog, and most months I post a slideshow of my daily photos.
Q: Are you happy with your Blaugust so far? If so, why? If not, why not?
My Blaugust? I don’t know what that is. I can see a bunch of really good people working behind the scenes to make sure Blaugust is a good experience though, and I appreciate that.
Q: How important is goal setting & reaching your goals to you overall?
Well, this post has caught me as I am expected to set my SMART objectives for work next year, so I am pretty anti goal setting at the moment. My aim there is to set objectives so mundane and trivial that I can’t help but achieve them – that usually works.
Q: Did you read any posts during Blaugust (or before) that you found particularly inspirational? Share them!
I’ve read some and enjoyed them. The thing that inspired me most was the conversation in the Discord that led to me writing this post.
