optimism!

well folks, i just gave myself a lesson. i started in on this post calling it, "slacking, and that's okay!" then i was a couple sentences into a first paragraph about how probably this year would nip my three-year trend of blogging more every year in the bud. "only 7 entries so far this year!" i was going to say. totally not on track to beat last year's huge-ongous total of 36 posts for the year. which i was then going to say i was okay with, and which i genuinely truly would have been 97.23% okay with.

and then i thought, "hmm, claire. isn't there something else you should check before you say that?" and i thought back, "what do you mean, claire? look at those numbers! 7! 36! what more needs to be said?"

and because it was me asking and answering all these questions, obviously i didn't really need to be told what more needed to be said. so i knuckled down and did the extremely hard homework of comparing how many entries i had by june each of the last few years instead of how many i had in total for the year.

i'll save you the trouble of going and looking on my archive list ...

2019: 7
2020: 12
2021: 7

in other words, i'm totally on track.

chin up, people! pay attention to what's real instead of just assuming you can glance at something and tell it's all too hopeless! (not that that i was feeling hopeless, just feeling "eh, no need to try"-ish.)

2022 is going to be big!

let's do it!

xoxo,
claire

p.s., i think i may have written pretty much this exact same post at some point last year ... but that's okay! sometimes you've just got to learn the same lesson over and over again until it sticks.