{"id":2119,"date":"2009-08-03T07:11:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T11:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2009-07-30T11:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T15:24:00","slug":"taking-our-self-too-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2009\/08\/03\/taking-our-self-too-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Our Self Too Seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I am so guilty of it. I convince myself that certain things matter when they don’t. I put intense pressure on myself for minute tasks.<\/p>\n

I write this blog for free. I have no editors to answer to and no one relying on me to produce. But the day I got my first subscriber – and each day that has proceeded that – I’ve felt that I have you<\/em> relying on me. You took the step to subscribe or revisit and I feel that it’s my duty to create value for you.<\/p>\n

That’s where the trouble begins<\/h3>\n

I’ve now created unnecessary pressure on myself. I’ve now created a scenario where I feel that I owe you something. I’ve replaced writing for pleasure with writing under duress.<\/p>\n

But there I go taking myself too seriously, thinking that of the 10’s, 100’s, 1000’s of blogs you read that you are waiting there, with bated breathe, for my next musing. I know, get real.<\/p>\n

I love my readers but for god’s sakes, I write for me and I need to remember that. No one cares as much as I do.<\/p>\n

But I wonder, why do we elevate our own importance? What does it do for our Self?<\/p>\n

photo credit: B Rosen<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\"silly\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I am so guilty of it. I convince myself that certain things matter when they don’t. I put intense pressure on myself for minute tasks.<\/p>\n

I write this blog for free. I have no editors to answer to and no one relying on me to produce. But the day I got my first subscriber – and each day that has proceeded that – I’ve felt that I have you<\/em> relying on me. You took the step to subscribe or revisit and I feel that it’s my duty to create value for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-journey-whats-on-my-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}