Accountability In Publishing

When I have lapses in my writing, I realize I feel like I am less accountable. While I am not out in the world right now running around, doing things wrong, nor am I doing anything to cheat myself, or someone else, it still can feel like I’m cutting myself short. I hadn’t originally planned to publish any articles today, but the more that plan sunk in, the more I wanted to veer from it, and do the total opposite.

Something inside my mind was telling me to write because that way I wouldn’t end up cheating myself. Now if I wrote nothing, the world wouldn’t end today. It would go in whatever way of destiny it has. However, I continue to find a lot of fascination because, on days just like these, where I have to push myself with a little more effort than first planned, I end up in a world of self-exploration, with ideas and emotions that are unplanned, and unexpected.

Accountability was once the greatest fear of mine. However, I could flip that and make some major changes. The type where that same accountability goes from foe to friend, and becomes a great tool when it comes to self-care, acceptance, and living the right life, even when nobody’s looking.

I like to take a brief pause in life once in a while and look back at the weeks or months that have passed. I like to go back in time and inventory my thoughts. While I mean all thoughts, I usually put more of a focus into a lot of my subconscious ways of thinking. The type of thoughts where hidden pain can lurk and creep. Times of sadness or anger, any type in which an effect is negative, and perhaps not openly noticed. At least not at first.

I continue to move through my journey, working hard to determine how accountability and my writing can work in tandem, to find that sad and lonely person out there. One who feels our kind of pain. Those full of sorrow, like we once were.

There is nothing worse than a lonely person alone. With a total inability to make a move, or think a meaningful thought. A person who mistakenly believes that there is no purpose in any future.

It is a practice of accountability, to use our outlets of writing to bring not only therapeutic vibes to ourselves but to the readers of our work as well.

I may not be a teacher or a therapist by trade. But I have a quality following of good people. Those motivated by my stories and the lessons that are born. When I receive wonderful feedback from strangers all around the world who are moved because of a motivating story.

It is very captivating for me to see someone change their lives, just like I work hard to do. Change is one of God’s greatest, yet most difficult gifts to get. It’s a difficult and complicated journey because the rewards are so priceless with value. We will never get to that way of living, without continuing to sharpen the things that make us our best.

There is never too much writing to do. I was once hesitant to “write too much.” But now I realize there is no such thing. If I’ve got a story in my mind that I feel can help me or someone else, I make it my duty to share it with the world. With total transparency, and no vulnerability held back. This world of mine is an open story, revolving through pain, sorrow, happiness, and love. But most of all, it's through courage and love, that this journey continues.

Thank you for reading.