Are you feeling overwhelmed by posting every day? Mindsets I gained from my experience of burning out after about a month of daily posting

Hello everyone, it's been a while.
My long-lasting poor health
has finally settled down a bit recently,
so I'm going to start
posting again, little by little.

I was plagued by viral gastroenteritis,
and I couldn't stop coughing whenever I inhaled,
which caused me to fall behind at work too 😭

I felt guilty about that, which made it hard to manage my mental state...

In short, June was really tough 😔

When my mental state was unstable, I thought about this:

Am I going to stop writing on note like this? 😔
What if not writing becomes the new normal? 😔

I didn't want that to happen,
and deep down beneath that anxiety,
the feeling of "I still want to write"
was definitely there.

Even when I felt physically terrible,
I found myself thinking,
"I might be able to write about this on note."

So, this is what I want to share today.

"It's okay not to move forward every day. Just thinking about wanting to move forward is already a perfect score 💯"

Liberated from daily posting 😌

The start of my daily posting

I studied how to grow on note
from Udemy and articles by other note users ✏️
Inspired by the message that consistency is the strongest strategy,
I decided to give daily posting a try.

Although it was slow,
my likes and follower count started to grow,
and I definitely felt a sense of fulfillment 😊

Becoming increasingly sensitive to changes in numbers

I used to be happy with even one new follower,
but at some point, I wasn't satisfied with that anymore,
and I found myself thinking,
"Only one person followed today..."

Before I knew it, I was checking my access stats,
looking at view counts and like counts,
and letting them dictate my mood.

I was becoming controlled by the numbers 😣
While also wanting to be grateful for every single one of them ☺️

Both versions of me existed,
and that's when I started to think,
"Posting every day is getting a bit tough."

Two triggers that brought my motivation back ⤴️

Interactions in the comment section started to happen.

Views and likes. Of course, I'm happy with them.
But if I can connect through words in the comments,
there's potential for it to develop further.
That's why it makes me even happier 😁

My trigger came from a comment on the article below 👇
From someone who put the techniques I introduced in the article into practice,

I got a comment like this below...

“I read your article and tried it out!”
“My actions have changed!”

The fact that something I shared
changed someone's behavior.
The joy of feeling,
“Ah, I'm so glad I wrote that”👍

Article features are also encouraging

Having your own article featured in someone else's article
is also a very happy thing, isn't it?

The article I mentioned earlier
was featured here.
Thank you very much😊

Being featured gives me the reassurance
that I am catching someone's eye,
and the expectation that
more people will see it from now on

It gently supported me when I was
tending to focus only on the numbers😭😭

Quantity is important, but it's quality that reaches the other person

Before I knew it, I was bound by the goal of posting every day, thinking, "I have to write today," or "Maybe it's bad if I can't write."

I started daily posting
believing in the value of consistency, but gradually
I felt that "I have to" was becoming
stronger than "I want to"😔

That's why I've been thinking lately.

“Isn't it okay to deliver quality instead of quantity?”
To put it another way, what reaches the other person
is not "how many days a week I wrote an article,"
but "whether the article left an impression"
I think.

No matter how much you write every day,
if your heart isn't in it,
it won't reach the reader.

Conversely, even if it's only a few times a month,
if one of them reaches someone's heart
and leads to things like comment exchanges,
I've come to feel that is enough😊

In summary

• If "I want to write" becomes "I have to write," that's a yellow light🚦

• In the end, what reaches the other person is only the writing that leaves an impression📖

• Are you able to write while thinking about wanting to be helpful to someone?✏️

I used to do this often too,
saying "It's daily posting!" and
throwing topic ideas at
chatGPT at 11 PM, and posting almost a copy-paste😤

With this, my own heart
doesn't move first, does it?😒

From "writing" articles to "delivering" articles

While I was posting every day, there were things I gained.
Those were the encounters with many fellow noters 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

The words I received 💭 and the feelings I connected with 💖

In that process, realizing that the writing I produced
was "useful" to someone
is much happier than the number of views or likes 😁

So, even if it's not every day by force,
I will deliver my words carefully at my own pace.

I think it's okay to have that kind of style
now.

I will continue to update little by little
at my own pace.
If there is anyone out there feeling overwhelmed by daily posting right now,

I want to tell you that it's okay if "continuing" doesn't mean "every day."

Thank you for reading.
😊