The Importance of Showing Up Every Day, Even When Things Feel Bleak!

If you're anything like me, you have experienced plenty of days where you wake up and maybe even get part way into a day and then you just feel too tired to show up for anything, and even for your own life.

The first snows of winter on our nearby mountains...

Yes, of course, there are some exceptional people out in the world who never feel tired of showing up but let's be perfectly realistic here: they are a tiny minority of the overall population!

"Showing up every day" is really a practice, as much as anything else. Sure we could call it mind over matter or willpower or something like that but as much as anything it is represented by simply dedicating yourself to fulfilling a promise to yourself.

Ironically, showing up every day was almost a sort of Plan B in my life. I'd actually reached a point at which I had determined - with some sadness - that I really didn't have any extraordinary talents that I could conquer the world with, and my primary "talent" was the ability to stick to something and doggedly deal with it no matter how much I didn't feel like doing so, and no matter how much it felt like I wasn't getting anywhere.

It's entirely possible we should just label that sheer stubbornness! Seems to be a trait that runs in my family...

In a fairly distant past, I had a retail store in Austin, Texas, and much of the time things there were difficult. There were definitely many times when I just wanted to throw in the towel and say "this is too much for me to deal with!" But something - perhaps that stubbornness - made me stick with it and we ended up having that store for 13 years.

Anyway, part of my point in writing about showing up every day also concerns people who are trying to find their way on here on Hive. Just like in many other situations in life one of the ways you build success with social content is by showing up everyday.

Does it really make a difference?

For myself, it primarily makes a difference in the sense that if I decide to miss one day that easily becomes missing two days which easily becomes missing three days and before you know it you missed a week and then you've missed a month and so on and so forth. In essence, that's how people "fade away."

That said, I definitely don't beat myself up if I miss a day or two here or there. But I dont let myself of the hook easily!

When I became part of this community I did make a commitment to myself that I was going to take my blog seriously, much in the same way I did when I originally started blogging, back in the late 1990s.

And I guess that's another point of showing up everyday. With the vast majority of things we undertake in life "dabbling" just isn't going to be a fair test of whether you're going to do well with something or not.

My experience has been that anything I dabble at I almost by definition do not end up doing well at. And what's the point of that? Well, except if you're just dealing with the hobby where dabbling is an acceptable result...

Part of my point behind writing this post is also to address the eternal question of how do I succeed on Hive.

As far as I can tell, there is no "magic formula" for that and so my suggestion - rather than focusing on trying to find a magic formula, - is simply to show up and write something every day. Create something even if it's just pictures of daily walk or pictures of your cat and dog. But at least you were here and that's a good start!

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great weekend!

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