What Writing Is Teaching Me About Personal Standards?

Expectations hurt when not fulfilled. I had two choices: either fulfill them or just abandon them. Trying to write continuously is my effort toward their accomplishment. In all these days, I learned the effort part is on my side, so I am trying my best. But some days I feel I have to do way better than the previous day. I expect better from myself day by day.

I started writing with an aim to improve as much as I can. The reason was sufficient enough to raise my standards as days passed. I wrote casually for almost a week initially. But the expectations were not satisfied with writing casually. After two to three days, I started to share my experience not casually but punctiliously.

That gave me joy, but after a few days I was back to my expectations. That time, I decided to improve my grammatical errors, which I am still trying to do. When I tried to understand this whole scenario, I realised my expectations set new standards every few days. They are not letting me be comfortable with a single improvement.

Day by day, I crave to be better than the previous day. For me, it's like I have to write today better than yesterday, whether in terms of grammatical errors or choice of words or whatever. Whenever I set high standards, I don’t perform my best according to them, but surely I do better than the previous day. Days pass and that better matches the standard, after which I upgrade the bar for myself.

I upgrade the bar, but it comes from inside; it's silent. I didn’t raise it by seeing others. I strongly believe improvement happens when standards are raised silently.

After publishing, I reread my former blogs to enhance the next ones. It's not because of self-doubt, but due to self-awareness to acknowledge and accept mistakes to improve next time. I criticise myself before anyone else, which helps me take external criticism as feedback.

I started with an aim to improve myself. That's only possible when I compete with myself instead of others. Setting standards again and again, not stopping after a single improvement, is helping me do it. I am trying to write every blog better than the previous one, either a little or much, I don’t know, but it’s helping me to show up daily.

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