Why I don't like to write about productivity

Most of what I have written for my blog has been about productivity. Maybe I'm overstating the amount of stuff I have written about it, but if I had to guess, I'd say that more than half of my posts are at least adjunct to productivity. And yet, I don't like writing about it.

The reason I'm always coming back to it is because I'm just thinking about it a lot. And whenever I need to come up with a topic to write about (which currently means every day), I start to write about the first thing that comes to my mind. Most likely, this will have to do with productivity.

I don't think I'm adding much value with what I'm writing. If somebody would ask me how to get more productive, I would send them a link to this website and be done with it. I write about it because it's easy, not because I think I'm doing something valuable. This makes it especially hard to share my work.

I started my blog to become a better communicator. But instead of trying to find an angle on the ideas I want to actually talk about, I just write about the first thing that comes to my mind. Starting to blog daily exacerbated this tendency greatly.

The way out of this are writing assignments. Instead of trusting to come up with something each day and to fall back to the first idea, set small challenges to write about. So far, I haven't put much thought into what challenges I will use. But really anything is better than what I'm doing right now. The current baseline for my blog is that I'm writing about topics I don't particularly want to write about and feel uncomfortable to share with others. This is an exceptionally low baseline to beat.