Importance of Blogging

         I will admit, when I first joined the team as a yellow belt, I was absent from classes and from my blogs.  There are now chunks of my journey gone, with barely any written record.  Then I had taken a break from the team while I was an orange belt, which happened to be the year of the pandemic.  Upon return, I brought a renewed sense of purpose for why I was on the team, and haven't missed a blog since.

        My blogging has evolved over the years, and there is usually an underlying theme for the year.  For instance, this year is about my mental and emotional journey.  Last year was a very physical journey.  The thing is, my blogging is what I need it to be, to make it relevant to my journey.  Whenever I'm having difficulty with a blog it is not for a lack of content, rather it has to do with there is too much content, that I'm having difficulty sorting through the jumbled mess of thoughts racing around.  Guess what though, blogging helps with that too.  It is a great tool to organize one's thoughts and extrapolate the information I'm trying to convey.  Although, I still do have days where my blogs aren't the greatest, perhaps more of those now the deeper I've delved into my journey.  Not that mastery isn't present, but I'm finding fewer moments of deep revelations.  When I do find those moments, they tend to take time to process and work through, so sometimes I end up writing bout the same thing, just in a different way.

        One of the most profound tools I was given, was in the form of the "I am" project.  Those 56 words were rife with thought stimulating conversations I was ready to have with myself.  If utilized correctly, you will learn things about yourself that can only help progress your mastery journey, because now you know what you have to work on.  This is something I plan on revisiting again to see what bubbles up this time, and if there is another layer I can start progressing in.

        Point is, blogging has been one of my greatest tools for my mastery journey.  It has given me a place to organize my thoughts.  It has given me a space to have deep conversations with myself.  It is a written record of my history, of where I am, and what I've been doing.