100 Days: 100 Thoughts
Why I started this blog series
It is day 12 of the 100 days, 100 thoughts series already! Can you believe it? After going strong for 12 days, posting a blog article consistently, it’s time for a reflection on why this began and how this works.
HOW THIS BEGAN?
Tea No Sugar is the blog website of my dreams, and I mean it. For the longest time, before I knew I wanted to do fashion journalism, I wanted a blog. But it was one of those things I thought about and never really acted on. I thought of the name for the blog before anything else all the way back when I was Sixth Form.
Tea No Sugar is the blog website of my dreams, and I mean it. For the longest time, before I knew I wanted to do fashion journalism, I wanted a blog. But it was one of those things I thought about and never really acted on. I thought of the name for the blog before anything else all the way back when I was Sixth Form.
If you know me, you know I love tea. And if you have seen me, you will have seen the packet of tea in my bag or in my hand. I can’t remember when it became my personality, but I have been known to consume up to 7 cups a day of herbal tea variations. So when it came to thinking of a name, I knew it had to be something about me, but not including my name - an extension of myself. I always drink my herbal teas raw and since tea is also synonymous with sharing news in modern language - the name just made sense.
But I didn’t do anything with it until my second year of uni. I had had a lot of journalism practice from my first year and finally felt “qualified” enough to have my own website. My sister created the website with me and we did a photoshoot to have some professional images on each page. The weekend after I finished my internship with The Evening Standard, I made the website live.
Now, I want to say the rest is history….but that wouldn’t be true. No matter how much I love this website, I didn’t set out time and space to use it the way I planned. As a content creator, I saw my interest in social media take over and actually doing really well. Leaving this blog forgotten.
Now, I want to say the rest is history….but that wouldn’t be true. No matter how much I love this website, I didn’t set out time and space to use it the way I planned. As a content creator, I saw my interest in social media take over and actually doing really well. Leaving this blog forgotten.
I love writing, always have. Content creation came new to me, and I love that too. However, it is only recently I found that I don’t have to choose. At such an early stage of my career, this is the perfect time to experiment and test out al my skills. It’s not everyday niche down!
Now, it’s one thing to realise, but it’s something else to actually do something about it. This is where this series comes in. I love a good challenge and the only person I compare myself to is me. So if I set myself a challenge - it is going to get done.
HOW IT WORKS
The rules are simple. Think of a blog article, write it down and post it. Now do that every single day for 100 days. These articles can be about everything and anything that comes to mind. It can be as long or as short as I’d like. I can write on the day or plan ahead. But. I must be consistent. It must be posted before midnight.
Sounds easy, sure. Until I had my university assignment taking up all my time, started a new job, and have endless heaps of forgotten social media and Youtube content piling up. But that’s life isn’t it? We are not always afforded the luxury for time to focus on one specific thing. Life comes at you fast and hard sometimes. Are you going to continue cruising by and blame time instead of making the most of it?
I am crafting a life for myself by living as close as possible to what my future self looks like. How can I say I want to be a fashion journalist, but never practice writing time sensitive articles? How can I say I want to cover fashion week but I don’t stay on top of the current shows? How can I say I want the hustle, bustle and glamour of a fashion girly lifestyle, but I don’t manage my time? The more often you do something the more of a master you become of it.
By June, I will have written AT LEAST 100 articles and I’m not even a certified journalist yet. Put that into perspective for your own pathway. How will you get to point B, without taking responsibility and ownership of point A?
I once heard someone say writers block isn’t a thing, you must just write and write until something sticks. Writers block is just another form of perfection because you expect all your writing to be great and if you don’t have great ideas, you’re not even going to try. News flash, not everything you write is going to be Nobel Prize worthy. That doesn’t mean you have to publish everything you write. But you won’t get anywhere without going somewhere. By stopping instead of trying, you are minimising the chances of success. Even if it’s a guaranteed million to one, you never know when that one will happen.
This is a blog post I will be coming back to read myself. A constant reminder and advice that I can take on my creative journey. Make sure to subscribe for so much more, tea is always served hot around here.
