What Writing Is Teaching Me About Ownership?

"It's not me" to "It's me", all things changed, nothing remained the same. Here, both sentences are the same except for the word not, but it only distinguishes excuses and responsibilities. Excuses had not benefitted me, but when I stopped making excuses, I felt a sense of responsibility.

Responsibility not for others but for myself, to do something meaningful in life. The reason I asked myself, is there any skill within me, on the very first day before writing a blog. In initial days, I used to blame others and conditions for my laziness and frustration. But when I started writing, I learned the concept of ownership in our lives.

When control is in our hands, then why blame others? I remember when I wrote for a few days initially, I was frustrated seeing the grammatical errors and mistakes. But I didn't make excuses that time; I preferred to improve next time because I want to improve, not anyone else. Days passed and I could see some improvement in errors while rereading blogs, but I am still trying to be better.

Excuses had never benefitted my growth but had pulled me back. I remember an incident in which it hindered me from writing a blog. The incident happened around 3 weeks before. That day my brain gave an excuse to delay blog writing.

Whenever I made up my mind to start, second thoughts came that it would be done later. The day was going to be over, almost an hour was left. However, I wrote the blog in that time period. So the excuse to delay almost tried to fail me in following consistency.

Therefore, taking ownership of myself has helped me write better and grow. Showing up daily is not any compulsion but a choice. A choice to share words freely without any hesitation.

Now, whenever I write a blog, I am accountable to myself. I expect to be better every day. That's building a self-belief which gives me confidence to show up daily.

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