tl;dr: the commitment to the practice is more important than whatever you get from the practice.

My morning practice involves a sitting meditation and then a writing meditation (this blog).

But there are days, like today, when I don’t really know what I want to write about and my mind is a blank.

I *feel* like I should write about the launch of Ethereum 2.0 or Bitcoin nearing its all-time high. I could write about Hegic, a decentralized options pool, and yet another piece of the DeFi puzzle.

Alternatively, I could explore the disconnect between strategy and execution that plagues pretty much every firm based on a 2015 article (though still relevant) from HBR entitled Why Strategy Execution Unravels—and What to Do About It.

But, for some reason, none of them are catalyzing a thought today.

Maybe it’s writer’s block, but as I sit here, thinking to myself (incorrectly) “what should I write so that I don’t let my readers down?” I am reminded of two things.

First of all, as much as I love and appreciate the readers of the this blog, I don’t blog for them/you. I blog for me. This is my meditation. I just share it, so I shouldn’t worry if it’s “good” or not.

Second, I was reminded of a quote that I read in “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” by Friedrich Nietzsche, which I just started reading recently (and admittedly) am having a challenging time following:

“You must overcome yourself ten times a day: that causes a fine weariness and is opium to the soul.”

Friedrich Nietzche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

There are days when I don’t feel like meditating or blogging, yet I do it anyway and now I realize that this is precisely the point.

The daily commitment and the periodic overcoming is the point of the exercise.

So, whether I have a “grand insight” or not doesn’t really matter.

What matters is to do it-whatever it is-even when I don’t feel like doing it.

And maybe that’s the grand insight?