Kill Motivational Shit-Posting

It’s 2020 motherfuckers. Welcome to the future.

Here’s a New Year’s Resolution: I’m not going to write about motivation anymore. That’s it, I’m done.

That doesn’t mean I’m going to avoid writing about mental health struggles or lessons I’ve learned from being 41 and confronting shit in my life; it’s more that I want to avoid clickbait, listicle bullshit.

I want to focus on writing about real things and real life, not meaningless, vacuum advice or positioning myself as some sort of guru.

I’m not a guru and neither is anyone else.

As I’ve written before, no one really knows what they’re doing and it’s best to be wary of anyone who pretends they have answers.

Ultimately, we all need to come to conclusions ourselves.

So no more motivational shit-posting.

This mental gear shift was triggered by a recent time on Facebook when a young girl dropped a link to her blog on a page I follow. I was curious so went and had a look. Every post title looked like the promoted stories on Medium. You know the stuff: ‘10 things mentally strong people do’ and ‘12 ways to change your life and empower the real you.’ All that shite.

Seeing those titles outside of Medium, (and Thought Catalog), sitting there naked…