The Suck Phase of starting a new activity

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It is getting hard. It sucks coming here everyday not being able to write even one sentence. Ohh wait! I just did. That’s a full microblog according to my criteria.

Well there is this suck phase that my role model Stefan talks about. When starting any new habit or trying out any new skill you have to go through this suck phase.

In suck phase what happens is, surprise surprise, YOU SUCK!!

You suck at the habit that you are trying to build. It is hard. You are making yourself look dumb. You also feel dumb. Sometimes you really feel dumb and should stop trying what you doing. (In most of those cases, as I have often found, I indeed was dumb.)

But other times I was not. It was just the suck phase. Because of this suck phase most people including me try out new activities but they are not able to get past the suck phase. They give up. And as a result they do not achieve anything meaningful.

They do not give it a proper shot to actually know whether they are good at it or not. Whether it is for them or not.

So, yeah! I am in the suck phase right now writing these microblogs. It sucks!!!

But, I have just realized that just showing up and typing whatever comes to mind is half the battle won.

Because when I started writing this post, I had no idea it would get this long. Close to 250 words. That’s enough for today!

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