It’s hard to believe that October is here again already. It feels like just yesterday we were ringing in 2024; and as my boss said a couple of weeks ago, the older we get, the faster time seems to go.
It’s also hard to believe that this is my fourth year taking on the Blogtober challenge. In the past, I’ve put a lot of pressure on myself to meet my goals, and last year was the first year I tried to take a step back and just focus on what I could learn from the experience.
Naturally, it was also the first year I completed the challenge. So that’s a lesson in itself, I suppose.
So this year, I’m going to try and follow in last year’s footsteps—but not too closely.
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My goals for Blogtober 2024
- Keep showing myself grace.
Last year, I made it a point for myself in my Blogtober challenge to remember that I don’t have to be perfect, and this year, that’s taken on a slightly different meaning for me.
Most of this year, I’ve been going to therapy both to deal with stuff that happened around January and some longer-standing issues that contributed to them. Part of what I’ve been unearthing lately is that I do actually have a really unhealthy relationship in my head with the idea of perfectionism; I struggle with feeling like people won’t like me if I mess up even slightly.
For me, this is going to be a unique chance to test myself on some of the things I’ve been working on, and to keep up with self-improvement that I hope shows for the people around me.
- Hold onto the feeling of success—but not too closely.
I’ve already sort of run into an issue where I can feel myself starting to worry over whether I can meet the same bar as I did last year in completing my Blogtober challenge—and it wasn’t until I re-read last year’s completion post that it got put into perspective for me.
I can feel last year’s success, without feeling pressure to meet it. This is a new challenge, a fresh attempt, and while it’s okay to stay on the wave of that success, I can’t let it pull me down.
- Have fun with it all.
I wrote a bit last year about worrying about my ideas being lame, and that’s something I want to tackle with this year’s challenge. It’s not exactly as cohesive as I think I was hoping for, but I’m really excited about what I’ve got planned—including a few ideas that came through on my stream a couple of weeks ago.
It all seems like it’s going to be fun, and I already have ideas for what to write about for all of them, so I’m going to focus on having fun and enjoying the process.
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One thought on “Taking on Blogtober 2024: No pressure”
I’m going to steal your goals because they are really good. I decided to do Blogtober yesterday and can already see how easy it might be to beome overwhelmed.