Bringing Blogging Back

So, I hear we’re #bringingbloggingback in 2020. I like that plan.

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Not only are social media profiles precarious and convoluted, they’re also built to be addicting. Sure, a lot of good and semi-connection can happen “there,” but I––like many––find myself continually scrolling for more time than I want to. I beat myself up about it, but am trying to remember that these platforms are literally engineered to commandeer my attention. Will power won’t go far against these algorithms. The only way to beat it is to make some distance. To disengage. I want my time spent online to be intentional and active, not aimless and passive. I’m still trying to find the right balance & disciplines for me, and I wrote about this process in a previous post. It’s…something…to realize how little progress I’ve made since writing that. Anyway, moving some of my sharing over to the blog that I own and control is part of my insurance policy against the precarity of social media platforms and an attempt to elongate my attention span while sharing more substantive things.

Most of my writing in 2018-2019 was in service of creating my Enneagram workshop curriculum, which was productive and a lot of fun. But I look forward to writing more publicly about a wider variety of things in 2020 , and this seems like as good a place as any to share what comes of that.

I want to write about:

  • the Enneagram’s intersections with other tools

  • neurodiversity

  • being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)

  • politics (because how can we not at this point?)

  • religion (because I keep trying to exit this conversation & apparently just can’t)

  • creativity

  • being an adult gymnast

  • health & wellness

  • what I’m reading

  • what I’m listening to

  • etc.

By any estimate, I honestly expect 2020 to be a rough year. We’ve started it in a new war, and November’s election may well be the most significant in my lifetime – at least to date. And I’ve not yet recovered fully from the last one. But perhaps our saving grace will be the 2020 summer Olympic Games in Tokyo? I’m an Olympics nerd and already excited! Regardless, whatever lies ahead, I plan to write my way through it. I know it’ll help me and genuinely hope it might also offer you something of value in the process.

Cheers to the new year. Onward.

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