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Hi and welcome! I'm Tobias from Germany and I write about personal development, mindfulness, designing your life and bootstrapping as a solopreneur.

Write Yourself Clear
by Tobias Scharikow (@refuse2choose)

Alright ... it's 08:43 pm. For almost 45 minutes I am starring on my screen and thinking about what I should write about.

The problem is not that I don't have any ideas. In fact, my idea backlog in Notion contains more than 60 different essay ideas.

However, right at this moment, I either don't feel very motivated to write about any of them or they need too much cognitive energy that I don't have at the moment.

Keeping up with writing daily for 30 days is hard. It was easier in the first 2 weeks, but I'm getting to a point, where I need a break and reflect.

I want to finish this challenge, especially since the destination is in view. So I am writing down my thoughts, word for word, and right now I am at 136 words.

In fact, I feel bad now for writing this down because it seems to me that this essay doesn't provide any value ... But the interesting thing I'm noticing is that I have something I want to write about. It's exactly these words. They are in my brain and they block me. Probably they're not very deep or interesting. Maybe they are not meant to be published.

But as I'm in this paragraph, I have already started feeling better. It's hard to describe. I am just writing down what comes into my mind.

It's 09:02 pm now. At 08:45 pm I named this essay "Untitled". Now I just changed it to "Write Yourself Clear". Because that's what I'm doing right now.

This is the message I want to tell with this essay.

Are you feeling stuck? Lost? Trapped? Is your brain full?

My advice: Grab a piece of paper or open a document. And then write. Just write down whatever comes into your mind. Go with the flow. It almost feels like a meditation exercise to me.