Finding the Balance, or Not

I recently read a post from the Viral Garden that literally punched me in the stomach. Mack Collier explained that you’ve got to know when to “remove the perfect filter” in order to get a great idea out there. Wow. That is me. Every-time I write a post it sits in my “unpublished” space for days, while i ponder whether or not it is good enough. Eventually more than half of these not-good-enough posts go in the trash. 

These posts then become untimely, irrelevant, and ultimately useless. What a shame!

Finding the balance between that great post, and a mediocre post isn’t always the key to having a great blog. Each reader will have their own favorite post you’ve written, some reason they keep coming back. They’ve found value in something you’ve written, and most likely they are not hanging on your every post. Sure we all know they come back for the superstars, but they aren’t disgusted or even deterred by the ‘good’ or even the ‘mediocre’.

So stop worrying that every single thing you write isn’t the best thing you’ve ever written, and start to realize that the people who find value in some of the things you write will come back and wait for the next big superstar. You’ve already made them your fans, you don’t need to blow them out of the park every single time.