Another year, another blog post with me proclaiming that I’ll be writing more often only to then not be seen again until January the next year.

And to be honest, this year probably wont be that much different. Except that it might be.

I actually feel more motivated to do ANYTHING these days than I have in years. Perhaps it’s the fact that I’m getting the run of the greens (other cliches are also available) but it feels like for the first time, in what’s probably over a decade, that if I put the effort in I might actually get something out of it.

My efforts in the past haven’t been great and even though the first two weeks of this year have probably had more happen to me than the last two months of last year, there’s nothing to suggest that I wont slip back into the old habits and end up back at square one. I did tell you other cliches were available, didn’t I?

Perhaps I need to start doing little blog entries like this, instead of randomly and excessively tweeting but my initial plan for that went up the swanny by virtue of the WordPress app for iOS being total wank. So maybe I need to change tack on that one.

One idea I had was to use this in the same way people use Tumblr; quick short sharp posts about something to fill content. After all, not every post has to be some excessively wordy effort to rival Atlas Shrugged, which I do have to get round to reading at some point. If only for shits and giggles.

Not sure what purpose this post has actually served and if you’ve stumbled across this I apologise for wasting your time but I certainly feel better for this.

The problem I have when it comes to writing is not that I have a shortage of ideas but a general lack of motivation to actually write and/or type them up. In fact, I have so many ideas I could do with actually writing them down to get them out of my system and move onto something else.  I guess this applies to a few areas of my life (general lack of motivation) but seeing as this is my blog I’m thinking that this is the place to try and sort out this particular issue.

Only issue is that I have no idea HOW to solve it. I know full well that when I’ve finished writing this it could well be a year, or more, until I actually get round to writing something else. One cause of this problem is undoubtedly Twitter. It’s not the only cause but it certainly doesn’t help. Getting sucked into Twitter, something which I’ve done before, finds you tweeting about anything and everything no matter how dull. Twitter for all it’s uses is a narcissists wet dream. Not quite so much as Facebook but I’ve never grown ‘attached’ to that as I have Twitter. Neither am I a narcissist (I think. And hope) but you understand the point I’m trying to make.

Maybe that’s one way to solve the problem. Instead of going on there, I come on here and write what I need to on here. Certainly no shortage of characters on here which should allow me to start writing “properly” instead of trying to edit myself down into bitesize chunks.

Sorry this hasn’t been particularly interesting but hey, you’ve read this far so I’m guessing you’re the one with the problem now.