I recently wrote up a blog post. When I reviewed it, I wasn’t very happy with what I had written. So I went through to rewrite it, trying to change the tone, cutting or altering sections that didn’t seem to work, and tweaking it over and over again. But still, something didn’t seem right.
Eventually I decided that I could keep working on it forever, but instead I needed to just finish it and accept that it wasn’t my best work. Which is fine. Not everything can be my best work – That’s why it’s called my best work. And by definition 50% of what I write will be below my average quality. So I did the final layout, added photos, and scheduled the post to go live the next morning.
Just before I went to bed that night, I realized what it was that was bothering me. The post was about how a certain belief that some people have about nutrition and weight loss is wrong.… Read more