Advice to ponder.

Sometimes I don’t feel like writing. It feels messy, difficult, even painful.
I immediately call it “writer’s block”.

It seems easy to accept it once I label it — if it’s writer’s block, there is not much I can do about it, right?

But there is… Writing. Or playing. Or reading. Or acting. Or trying. Or, simply, letting go of fear and the expectations, and doing the craft.

“People with writer’s block don’t have a problem typing. They have a problem living with bad writing, imperfect writing, writing that might expose something that they fear.”
— Seth Godin

Blah, blah, blah.

This week I started doing some research about running a small business. Among many things, I’ve found some common complaints:

• “It's easy to devote 80+ hours a week when you literally have no life.”

• “I often convince myself that breaks are for slackers and that if I decide to take a day off here and there to spend it with my family that my businesses will immediately crumble.”

• “I'm always catching myself deviating from work and am constantly losing productive time to these issues.”

• “My wife also complains I talk about business, like 90% of the time.”

I thought it was very interesting, as it is common to associate running a business with the wonders of being ‘your own boss’.

Any thoughts on this?

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TV Series: Les Revenants (watching in French, with French subtitles).

Article: The Simple cure for Writer’s Block by Seth Godin

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