I Have Written Fewer Past 6 Months But Gained Much More
I wouldn’t have it any other way
“Where your attention goes, your energy flows”.
This quote is hanging by my mini-whiteboard in my workspace since mid-2021.
Since then, each day when I glanced at it, it set a subtle reminder to be mindful of how and where I placed my attention.
I haven’t really been active writing on Medium or Substack — and it wasn’t my intention. I have been swarmed with unexpected changes in work and social life since 2022 began — a stark contrast to 2021 for me, where I was sleeping an average of 12 hours a day and struggling with energy and lower back pain. The number of unexpected changes that happened in the past 3 months might give me enough materials to write stories that may make you go, “Wow, do such people really exist?”
Since I stop lurking around Medium, except to read a few stories from a couple of my favorite writers (yes you , , and ), I bothered less about the “noise” here, be it 404 error codes or some radical changes in design layout or any feature upgrade of the Medium app.
And dare I say, it has been super liberating.
I guessed the above quote has some elements of truth in it, evidently over the months, as I placed less attention on this platform where one can be easily sucked into comparison and performance, I find myself tapping into my feminine intuition more and flowing with seasons of life.
Perhaps this is a sign that I am evolving as a writer, regardless of number, type, and size of platform and “followers”.
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