Good morning. I feel like blogging today.

Things are shifting in my creative coaching practice and I’m excited about it. A few things are going on behind the scenes and internally which I want to share: gently, slowly, without fuss or pretension.

Firstly, I’m doing an integration course with Eric Maisel.  In the ‘Make it Your Own’ course we are working towards integrating all our experiences, learnings and interests towards creating something new that is completely our own.

The course has given me the opportunity to reflect on what I’m truly interested in intellectually and emotionally and how my past has shaped where I am today. It’s pulled out nudges of things I have been meaning to ‘get to’  and reignited the visions I have for my creative work and coaching work.

Writing a regular blog (again) has been one of those things I’ve been meaning to ‘get to’.

There is a proliferation of information online on how to run a successful blog. how to attract attention for yourself through writing good copy that’s SEO optimised, how to write attention grabbing headlines, what you should write about and how in order to position yourself as an expert, about giving value, how you should encourage engagement, how you should include images. Not to mention all the information about how blogging is dead, especially the personal blog, how no one has the attention span anymore and so forth.

Somehow all this abundance of information on how to do it ‘Right’ makes me not want to start. I start to over-think, over-plan, criticise each word when I do start writing (eg. I know saying ‘I start to’ is not good writing, I use too many superfluous words and too much passive language). Thinking about all these things blocks my flow. My inner rebel archetype also begrudges being told what to do.

As a coach, I feel like it’s been beaten into me that my blog must GIVE VALUE, GIVE VALUE, GIVE VALUE, be profound, change people’s lives, FIX, FIX, FIX.

Shhh, could you just quieten down with all that Value, please?

Maybe let’s not rush in to fix things or give value or optimise, maybe let’s just be human for a moment, let’s be gentle for a moment.

Honestly, I just want to have a morning chat over a cup of coffee with ya’ll, to have space to share what’s on my mind, to have you hear me and to hear what’s on your beautiful mind too.  If so inspired, you are invited to comment below, I’d love you to consider the comment section a space to express your own reflections and have them witnessed.

I want to use blogging as a way to take time to reflect on what’s intellectually interesting to me, what’s concerning me, inspiring me, lifting up or saddening my heart or things I’ve found helpful that you might find helpful too.

Putting things in writing has always been incredibly helpful to me to clarify my thoughts and intentions. I have always ‘written myself forward’.

So, I’m writing this blog post as a way to clarify my intentions.

My intention is not to do it ‘Right’.