I’ve been feeling a little stuck lately. I love to write, and I keep having what might be the beginning of an idea for writing a journal entry or a blog post, but I just get stuck. It’s like there’s this wide open space, and I feel like I either have to fill it completely or do nothing at all. I have several journals that I’ve begun but have not finished. I became overwhelmed at the size of it, thinking that it’s too much, that I can’t do it. Then when I stop writing, I become disappointed in myself for having a half-finished journal…then, I think if I just start fresh, with a brand new journal, I’ll feel inspired once again. And the cycle continues.

Ugh. I feel so stuck. And overwhelmed.

So today, I found a simple, small notebook that I’d like to try and break the cycle with. It’s called the breaking-big-goals-down-into-small-chunks technique. (I’m so ingenuitive.) One thing I’ve learned about myself is that I’m very detail-oriented, and I quickly become overwhelmed with huge tasks unless they’re broken down (think of an entire house where all the rooms are messy…I become so overwhelmed by the huge task that I just don’t do anything…or, I clean 1 room at a time, only focusing on that room….a purely hypothetical example).

I may fail. Again. But, as I have said with my Project 365, I don’t want to not even try just because I’m afraid I might fail. So here I go.