# The Blinking Cursor

**Published by:** [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2/)
**Published on:** 2022-09-29
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2/the-blinking-cursor

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The prompt for this blog is: “What’s on your mind?” What’s on my mind is trying to figure out if I want to stay committed to the daily practice of blogging. On the one hand, it’s a meditation of sorts and probably for that reason, it’s worth it. On the other hand, sometimes it’s a grind and I can’t figure out what I want to write about and so I just stare at the blinking cursor for a bit. That blinking cursor, when you have to write something, and, in particular, when you tell yourself “oh, this needs to be a major insight/brilliant,” can be intimidating. Once upon a time, my blog was (or at least I thought it was), the primary marketing activity for my consulting business. Today, it’s not that. Heck, I’m pretty sure that almost no one reads it since I moved off of Word Press and on to Mirror. And you know what? The few hundred people who got my blog every day? No one has said “oh, I miss reading your blog.” Which tells me something. And it tells me that, as I said once upon a time, the blog is my workshop. No one needs to even see or care what happens in there.

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