Bad > Blank

“I can fix a bad page. I can’t fix a blank page.”
Nora Roberts

Writing more consistently has helped me to be more creative.  It has helped me gather my thoughts around something important to me.  It has even helped me get organized because I have to keep all this stuff separated in my Google Drive folders. 

But the best thing it has done for me is that I have realized complete is always better than non complete.  The minute you hit publish or send or ship or whatever is the moment you complete that task.  Yes, it can always have been better but 80% is better than 50%.

I learned that last one in Math class.  I had this terrible attitude about not wanting to try if I couldn’t succeed at it.  I honestly still struggle with this but it used to bug the mess out of me and I would never do anything if I couldn’t succeed or win at it. 

Anyways, when I got to high school, I learned a lot about letting go.  I just could never figure out all the weird equations in Algebra II.  I hated it.  But our teacher taught me a valuable life lesson.  I can’t even remember his name but he showed me that I could do well in the class if I just did the best I could on every single assignment, whether it was a B or a D. 

I didn’t get the highest marks (by far) in the class, but I got through it because I kept submitting my homework and I tried to fill out every single question and show my work.  You could get the answer right and still not get 100% if you didn’t show your work and I found that sometimes, I got points just for jotting down the stupid thoughts my head was thinking. 

As the great comedy writer, Nora Roberts, quoted above, Bad > Blank.

Bad has some problems but at least it has some direction.
Blank has no direction at all.  It shows a lack of drive and that’s awful. 

Bad is not good.  But at least, it is on the journey.  Somewhere.  

All I am trying to say is that it is much easier to turn something around than it is to get something moving.