improvement

About two weeks ago I decided to take a critical look on my daily information consumption. I had accumulated a lot of sources that produced hundred of articles to go through on my daily feeds, which I only ended up reading a fraction.

After giving it some more thought, and reading some guides about improving one's writing skills I have managed to come up with some new focuses for my constant quest to make my writing better.

First, i need to get rid of those horrible long and complex sentences. I know i don't use them that often. But sometimes things can get out of the hand.

So far, when I have been writing these daily posts I have had only two things to focus on. Firstly, to write every day and make it a routine for me. Another things has been trying to improve my overall writing skills.

Over a thousand days streak pretty much tells that I have succeeded on the former goal rather well. As a side effect, it has also improved my ability to pick up any writing task and completely bypass the empty page problem.

Admitting you have failed is hard. And even after you have accepted it yourself and spoken it out openly its not easy to discuss about it. It's so easy to get defensive or only look at the good sides. At least publicly. On the other hand it's too easy to go through those negative things in your head and disregard the good things.

The balance is somewhere there in between. You need to admit not everything went as planned. But there is always something good never the less. At least you tried. There is no bigger failure than not trying. Or giving up after just one try.

It's a good thing that nowadays there is a ready solution to almost everything. For example, in software development, there is a library or API implementing what you need and in personal development, there are all those methods. It's not about lack of solution, its about the difficulty of choosing the best one from all the available options.

But is copying and using those already existing solutions always the most suitable choice. Or are they actually the best possible. Maybe there is a way to do even better, more suitable solution. At least for your particular use case.