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Discussion on: What's holding you back from creating as much content as you would like to?

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Megan Sullivan

I've had a hard time maintaining momentum. I'll have surges of creativity, which I'll use to build up a backlog of ideas or rough outlines, but then after publishing one or two of them I find my attention drifts and I want to work on something else for a while. And then I never end up coming back to the rest of the ideas in the backlog.

This year, I set a goal to spend at least 10 minutes a day writing (or outlining content to write). I wanted to try and build up a habit of writing consistently. I've been able to stick with it so far, since it's a small goal, but (unsurprisingly) it's hard to make significant progress on a post in 10 minutes. I've ended up just bouncing around between ideas in the backlog, adding a few more details at a time.