Is it good enough?

Yesterday I failed in my intention to write a blog post. I wrote one and a half sentences and then just stared at the screen thinking I don't know what to write now. 

You'd think that I'd know by now that the key when I don't know what to write is just to start writing, possibly starting with "I'm really stuck and I don't know what to write".

In some ways running my daily mile is easier, not in as much as I still need to change, go out the door and start moving even when I'm feeling tired and not really up to it. But in other ways when I'm going for a run I don't have to decide what I need to do, the only decision is at each junction, having to decide which way to go next.

Writing, especially something that I'm going to publish, even if it's only a blog post, is very public. 

No one, apart from a nosy cat, bird, or possibly fox or badger, depending on what time I run, is going to see and be able to judge what my running looks like.

But I never know who might read my blog post (if anyone at all), so straight away it has a different quality about it. The dreaded "is it good enough?" comes into the equation.

However, strangely the worst version of 'is it good enough' isn't when I'm reading what I've typed on the screen. 

The worst version is when I'm already evaluating, judging and rubbishing the thoughts in my head that haven't even hit the screen or paper yet. And it's even worse when I haven't even got any thoughts of what to write, my only thoughts being "I really don't know what to write". 

My inner critic is at his most vicious when I'm in that space.

And even though I know this at a logical level, and have done for several years now, sometimes (as Steve Peters describes in his excellent book The Chimp Paradox) my emotional chimp brain doesn't allow logic to intervene.

So there we are. I seem to have a blog post today (as well as my daily mile) so it wasn't that hard after all.

The question still remains though, so if anyone would like to answer it for me, I'd be really interested, but "is it good enough"?