Let’s be honest – I’m sure I’m not alone in dreaming of making a living doing something self-actualizing in ways that no corporate American job could be, that frees me in time and space like having a successful blog a la Tim Ferriss, so that I can make money just for being me. Right?

Nothing wrong with that. But maybe better, blogging could be the best way to “be the change”. But before I get into that, what has kept me the most from blogging has been: 1) perfectionism – the fear of being ignorant or more importantly other people thinking I’m ignorant – why write unless I’m a proven, market-tested sort of commodity and if I’m no expert and 2) fear of fame – some people really want to be famous for reasons I clearly don’t identify with – popular acclaim sounds like being a slave to the praise of others and more problems to me, personally.

But the more that I read other people’s blogs or even when I choose YouTube channels – what sticks out to me is that creating is really not about perfection at all. Yes, what gets clicks are whatever Instagram photoshopped perfection of life that’s out there, etc. and perfection might be what we aspire to. But where most people start is at the beginning anyway.

I randomly googled “why blog” and Andrew Sullivan’s The Atlantic article “Why I Blog” came up – he says, “The blogger can get away with less and afford fewer pretensions of authority. He is—more than any writer of the past—a node among other nodes, connected but unfinished without the links and the comments and the track-backs that make the blogosphere, at its best, a conversation, rather than a production.”

Even a biography is a sort of journey from ignorance to knowledge – so why be ashamed of any specific ignorance when everyone’s a beginner at something. Beginning from a place of total ignorance to some sort of success is exactly the story of some very successful bloggers. Granted, we are looking for answers in the end, so we expect to advance somehow, not to stay in the same place of ignorance where we started. But there is a recognition nowadays that you can even learn more from other beginners, perhaps more similar to you, than from the people who may have never started from your beginning at all.

So, perfectionism is really when the best is the enemy of the good enough. So – what is good enough?

How about “good enough” being a worthy goal? A better change for the world, not just me or my bank account.

What about a blog that starts a conversation about how, at least in America, most of us have what we need, despite constantly being told that we do NOT have enough. Ads everywhere, unless you pay to get rid of them. The lifestyles of the rich and famous that look like the perfection of life. But is it really?

How about being the anti-blog – to propagate like a meme and disperse into more blogs in the world, rather than having everyone “follow me” on Instagram? Why not make it normal to come from a place of ignorance and therefore humility so that we can just start conversations?

What if it’s really about the ideas and ideals to grow a group rather than being about any person in particular? Like minimalism and people who aspire to minimalism. Because it is not so much about the individual minimalist as much as the message of minimalism. Which ultimately, is gratitude and peace with what we have, so that we can be those higher versions of ourselves that we were meant to be, rather than buying things that don’t buy satisfaction.