How overthinking leads to a post about - overthinking.
I always was an over-thinker. Hours spent analysing every aspect, angle and colour of a decision, conversation, or task - whether already made, or one yet to be made.
This fact actually had me convinced I would make for a (good) writer. If there’s so much to be thought about, there has to be at least SOME good content in there, right? RIGHT?!
Wrong. Overthinking makes for ZERO content. Once I was faced with an empty page, well, I started overthinking the topic. What should I write about? Will that be interesting for people? What people? None of my subscribers fits that profile. Wait, I don’t actually have any subscribers! Should I get some before I post? Where do people get subscribers?
[goes on to read countless articles about getting subscribers]
[starts creating IG account]
The horror: what would my first IG post be?!😱
Vicious, vicious cycle.
Hours passed, with nothing to show. Handful of drafts in my Medium account, notes on my phone and scribbles in my notebooks (I’m oldschool). Our ScreenSaverz blog remained empty. As did all the other blogs and company sites I promised to write for at this or that point in my career. There were a few, because people know me as opiniated and with things to say.
What you’re reading right now is a training exercise in letting go - of my overthinking, and of (too much) care what other people think (of me). It’s me spending time in an activity which I do enjoy - once I decide what to write about. 😉
(Ask me how many times have I rearranged every sentence in this post. Or rather - don’t.)
Amedea
