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4 Barriers to Blogging including Procrastination and Perfectionism

I’ve been into tech­no­logy since I was a small boy. My first com­puter was a Texas Instru­ments TI-99 4A, fol­lowed quickly by a ZX Spec­trum+. I remem­ber my first exper­i­ence of brows­ing the world wide web back in 1995 at Uni­ver­sity and being amazed at what the future could hold. I made my first web site on the GeoCities-like site, For­tune City around 1996, and bought my first domains and host­ing space in 2000.

So why did I only start this blog just a year ago? Why did it take me so long to get round to blog­ging? Well, in my exper­i­ence it was down to two issues– pro­cras­tin­a­tion and per­fec­tion­ism. I had made pre­vi­ous attempts in blog­ging over the years, but unfor­tu­nately they never las­ted very long as I never seemed to have the time to main­tain them, but more import­antly I had too high stand­ards. I looked around at every­one else’s blog, and they seemed so much bet­ter than mine.

I don’t think I am alone in this, and I still know quite a few people who would like to blog, but just haven’t got round to it. The prob­lem is, there are just too many other more import­ant things to do, and if you are going to do blog­ging, there is this over­whelm­ing feel­ing that you have to do it well.

The prob­lem is, per­fec­tion­ism and pro­cras­tin­a­tion were huge bar­ri­ers for me. They stopped me from even mak­ing a start, or from try­ing it out for longer than a couple of weeks. The past year in blog­ging has taught me quite a few new things which I’d like to share with you.

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