My Over-Promising Problem

Remember Wednesday evening when I said that Part Two of the Bat Mitzvah post was already written and would be posted tomorrow? And then tomorrow happened and I thought, well I have a ton on my plate today and since I posted yesterday evening, maybe it’s fine to give it a day and post on Friday. But now it’s Friday and I went into the post to hit publish, but then realized I hadn’t inserted all the photos that I wanted to use. And then when I was re-reading the post to see which photos I was missing, I started re-editing again and now everyone is home and it’s late Friday afternoon and I am just now coming to terms with the fact that I should never have said that I was posting it tomorrow. I should have just said that I would post it next week, because clearly, I was setting myself up to fail. Please believe me— I truly thought the tomorrow thing was going to happen!

Over-promising seems to be a reoccurring problem of mine. At least when it comes to communicating with my audience online. I say I’m going to post daily stories in real time again, I’m going to post a Mommy Shorts Connections every day, I’m going to do a hair tutorial on tiktok, I’m going to DM you the brand name of Harlow’s thermos as soon as I get back home, etc. The brand is Mira, by the way, for the three people who asked.

And then when it doesn’t happen, I think that you all think I’m slacking off or caring less about posting on certain platforms, but that’s not actually the case. More often than not, the reason I am not posting something is because I care too much. Leah can attest to this. I think I drive her crazy with how much time I dedicate to each little piece of content and how often I will look at what should be a finished product and say, it’s missing something or it’s not quite good enough. I am the least efficient content creator ever. I would rather hold off and get it right, then prioritize consistency.

So today, I worked on Part Two of the Bat Mitzvah post and learned it’s not actually ready to post. And I worked on a Day in the Life and realized, it’s not quite working either. And I had to get a piece of sponsored content done to submit for approval and Mazzy was home sick and Leah had to leave at 3pm and Harlow’s got a play date at 5pm and what I’m trying to say is that the Bat Mitzvah post is not going up and I’m sorry for over promising.

I know it’s not a life or death situation, but you guys are so good to me and at the very least, I wanted to give you an explanation. I’m hoping I’m not the only one who thinks they can do more than they can actually do in a day!

And now I’m reading and rereading this wondering if it makes sense to post. Even though spending more time on this post totally defeats the purpose! I think I’m just gonna hit publish and hope people get it. Leave a comment if you are one of those people!

Have a good weekend everyone. I hope we all rest up and give ourselves a break.

xo, Ilana