Sometimes I am just in awe of how the blogosphere always has a post somewhere that gives me that pick-me-up just when I need it. Darren’s post Make a Contract with Yourself at Problogger was the one thing that I needed to read right now.

After I developed my blogging schedule the other day, and finally finalized what I wanted that blogging frequency for that last blog to be, I had a short spell of relief - I felt like I’d accomplished something. But shortly after, when I took a look at what I was setting out to do, it felt to me like I had just outlined the blogger’s equivalent to climbing Mt. Everest.

In one word, I felt overwhelmed. Way, way, way overwhelmed.

But now that I’ve read Darren’s post, I’ve been thinking about that contract with myself - what terms and conditions will I include? The consequences and the benefits. The requirement to keep to the schedule for a set period of time before I let myself terminate the contract, and chalk it all up to a failed experiment, an example of me pushing myself too hard, too fast, too far.

It seems to me that committing this to paper, and then adding the symbolic gesture of actually signing it, will solidify my commitment. It’s something that I really do need solidified.

After that, I can do what I know I need to do - quit seeing it all as Everest, and break it down into daily chunks of “do this, do that”.