{"id":24,"date":"2023-05-27T03:40:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T03:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenn-schexnayder.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2023-05-27T03:40:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T03:40:58","slug":"the-struggle-is-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenn-schexnayder.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/27\/the-struggle-is-real\/","title":{"rendered":"The Struggle is Real"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What to say? That&#8217;s the unending question. I recently posted on LinkedIn asking for help with a project that I&#8217;d like to bring to fruition. I feel like I&#8217;ve made decent progress, but have hit a bit of a snag with it. For me, the real problem is in being as vulnerable as I was \u2014 I admitted to being ignorant in areas I feel I shouldn&#8217;t be. I always feel like I should be able to resolve any issues I come across on my own, but I also intellectually understand that that isn&#8217;t a realistic expectation of anyone, really. I just have a really hard time getting past it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For years now, I&#8217;ve had this idea that failing, and not being afraid of failing, is what really allows people to progress, to learn, and to improve their skills. I&#8217;ve always had the issue of feeling like anything that I do should be a finished product, though, and that has led to me not putting myself out there. This is something that I&#8217;d really like to move past, however, and I guess that post on LinkedIn and this one are a small part in that journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just to make the point a bit further, I&#8217;ve been reticent to post anything due to fear that my writing isn&#8217;t up to snuff or that my thoughts wouldn&#8217;t be coherent enough or that I&#8217;d generally come across as an idiot. As such, this isn&#8217;t the easiest thing I&#8217;ve done, and as much as I&#8217;d like to continue posting just to practice and get better at writing and putting my thoughts to text and to be able to better organize my thoughts (and I guess just generally think better), I fear that I&#8217;ll just fall off again and this will be another thing that I&#8217;ll fail to keep up due to all of those fears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the LinkedIn post and the project I&#8217;m working on, I&#8217;d really like to use those as a catalyst for improving my knowledge and skills, but I also worry about my ability to follow through on the project, and even more so, any collaboration. I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ll be able to do what I want, but it&#8217;s certainly something I&#8217;ll at least have in the back of my mind and that I&#8217;d like to return to. I probably really need an accountability partner who I can trust, but anyway&#8230; that&#8217;s for a later date, I suppose&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What to say? That&#8217;s the unending question. I recently posted on LinkedIn asking for help with a project that I&#8217;d like to bring to fruition. I feel like I&#8217;ve made decent progress, but have hit a bit of a snag with it. For me, the real problem is in being as vulnerable as I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenn-schexnayder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenn-schexnayder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenn-schexnayder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenn-schexnayder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenn-schexnayder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glenn-schexnayder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/glenn-schexnayder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenn-schexnayder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenn-schexnayder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenn-schexnayder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}