19th July 2021 2202
How are you this fine day, my awesome Readers? I keep meaning to get something finished but the perfectionist in me keeps pulling me back, and I am not happy with it. However, the latest writing prompt from @JonicaBradley got me thinking. Writing prompt #9 is Success (see the end of this article for how to participate)
Success - what is it, how do you define it?
For me as we travel on this strange journey called life, we continually achieve success some big some small.
Our first baby steps - Success
Our first words - Success
Graduating School - Success
First date - Success
First kiss - Success
Get married - Success
Have children - Success
Get a job - Success
Buy a House - Success
First vacation abroad - Success
The list is endless and goes on and on, have you done some of these ? Well I know you have so, give yourself a tap on the back as @FarmGirl says or a pat on your back as I say. Sorry @FarmGirl I couldn't resist !
I do love these writing prompts, it makes us delve into ourselves and do some soul searching.
My next Success
For me a success is now a personal achievement and something I can be proud of. For me that will be writing and completing my first book. My great grandfather Sir Edward Blount published his memoirs. He was an inspiration to me through his book, and I vowed I would write my memoirs of my travels. Additionally my great aunt wrote many Religious education books for children, so the pressure is on. This will be my Success and one for which I will be proud.
Yes, but what about the Title!
When less is more. One reason I joined this platform was to get my writing mojo back. And for that I am thankful to read and to all you Awesome wonderful readers, your comments on Archie and Moira push me and give me confidence to carry on and finish. Indeed the wonderful @CoquiCoin has highlighted another side of me and my Dr Doolittle character of Eddie Wildlife and Daffy (such a drama queen as @ARTicLEE pointed out), this pushes me even more.
However, what I have found is that Pareto's Law is in play here for me. Some of you may be familiar with Pareto's Law or some may know it is the 80/20 rule.
Vilfredo Pareto was an Italian economist who in 1895 discovered that 80% of Italy’s land belonged to 20% of the country’s population. Pareto's Law states that for many phenomena 80% of the result comes from 20% of the effort (I did a thesis on this for my Masters in Knowledge Management) and I could bore you with hundreds of examples.
A fun relevant one concerns emojis! According to a recent publication from the Unicode Consortium (Source 1), only three out of 2,600+ emojis—😂, ❤️, and 😍—account for 20% of overall emoji use.
Now then the relevance for me! On this platform it has become apparent that 80% of my rewards are coming from 20% of the time and effort I spend, meaning the articles I spend the least amount of time on are making me the most BCH which I can then pay it forward.
So whilst reading and writing at read has got my mojo back for writing, what is being rewarded is not my stories and articles that I spend the most time and research on, but these 10 questions types which are super fast and not improving my writing.
Conclusion - My read success
Whilst the platform, or more accurately my wonderful and Awesome readers have brought success to me in so far as my writing mojo has come back. For success in this platform in BCH from you-know-who, I have to spend less time on my articles and not write fully researched articles and stories.
In other words LESS IS MORE !
Source 1 - https://home.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-frequency/
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Write anything about success
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Haste ye back.
Forget about the pressure you are feeling, I believe you can publish that book of yours soon 💗