The Perfect Time – The Climb #897

Saturday 7th August 2021

Today was a day where I made a little progress on a lot of things. And as such, especially being a weekend, I felt quite accomplished.

Most importantly, I think I have my Twitter back. This had taken a ridiculous amount of effort, including involvement by my local MP. But it looks like I’ve got it back.

I haven’t tried it yet as I don’t want to get my hopes up. I’ve had so many let downs over the last few months that part of me expects something to happen the moment I go to post something. I’ve decided the first thing I will post is an explanation of everything that happened. That means I need to create my own thread. And that’s a lot more work than, for example, just saying “Hi, I’m back”

For me, Twitter is where the writing community is. It’s also where I hear about opportunities, especially in the gaming writing space that I’m slowly breaking into.

But with it, comes a realisation that I need to be a bit better at social media. It can be a dangerous thing because it’s easy to worry about the promotion rather than the actual work, but the way I look at it, this is a perfect activity for the support bubble sofa of an evening.

In the interim, I’ve built systems in Notion to help me plan and track my posts (not the fun off-the-cuff ones but the more pillar-type content).

I think part of the reason I concern myself so much about it is that I think social media management is a discipline and as such it teaches me consistency. And whilst I’m not too bad at getting the words done, I don’t feel consistency is something I have outside of writing.

My big trouble, and one I’m trying to overcome, is that I can be too much of a thinker. That’s good in some areas, but all too often I think “I will save that until the perfect time” and there’s never one. I say I’ll do something when I get my Twitter back, then the PC dies and I need to wait for it to be fixed. Then it’s fightcamp. Then it’s because…

And there are areas where sitting, and planning and waiting for the perfect time is incredibly beneficial. But I need to do the other sometimes, and I struggle with just diving in and seeing what happens.

I need to teach myself that sometimes there’s no perfect time and I just need to do. Social media is where I challenge my hesitancy. And I do a poor job of it… which, in turn, makes me more interested in it.

The downside, is that I just pile on lots more things I need to do in a day. Yes, they might only take a minute each and 20 minutes in total… but then if I have a busy day, that’s 20 tasks I’ve not done.

I need to play with it… and most importantly, if I miss a day, not dwell on it and just worry about the next day instead. This is where I need my habit tracker.

Things are in place, they’re not perfect and I keep waiting for them to be perfect. Yes, it’s good I’m getting writing done each day, but I don’t do writing on the Support Bubble sofa, and that’s likely to be my new social media time.