Finding Balance

When I began this whole writing unmotivatedly thing, it was more of a realization of the constant fight I have with myself with sitting down and actually writing something and that ever-present gnawing in the back of my mind that I should be writing, but wondering why I don't.

Then one day, I just decided to email the publishers of the Escape Adulthood magazine just out of the blue. Kim & Jason. These folks are awesome at what they have been doing.

Well, being a glutton for punishment, I asked, in a round about way, if they needed writers for their magazine. It turned out (since it was going on the 2nd issue) that sure, I could contribute something.

I was excited. I was overjoyed. Then I wondered what I had gotten myself into. The topic was about finding ourselves, finding balance but not about Finding Nemo. I thought this would be just perfect. I had been searching and searching for what in the world I was doing here for years, and maybe I had gotten to a point of figuring out a little bit of it.

When I sat to write the article, so many ideas came to mind. So many different beginnings and endings, but not enough middles to tie it all together. When I did have something down on paper (or screen), it was way too preachy... the new me is working on getting away from all of that.

So I began taking the topic of finding ourselves literally.

To read my contribution, head on over to Kim & Jason's blog, download the ebook (or better yet, buy the paper version. For my article, it's on page 26. But there are a lot of great articles in addition to my piece of work.

Let me know what you think.

David Stoddard
The Unmotivated Motivational Writer
www.djstoddard.net