It's okay to lower the bar
I’d raised the bar for my daily [journal] entries, and didn’t have the energy to meet it. But instead of just lowering the bar and going back to boring/ugly entries, perfectionist thinking kicked in. If I couldn’t make it good, why do it at all?
...Thankfully, I was eventually able to shake myself out of those thoughts and come back to just getting something, anything on the page at the end of the day. But there was a while there were I really thought I may as well put the journal in the bin.
I had to remind myself that it’s okay to lower the bar. That an average version of something is better than a perfect version of nothing. All I can do is have a go.