How to Keep Creating When It Feels Pointless

08 Oct 2025 #writing

The first days of writing or creating anything online are the hardest.

Nothing seems to work. Nobody seems to care. You feel like what you’re doing is pointless.

I know that feeling. Just a couple of my coworkers read my first blog posts. And when I started on LinkedIn, two likes and one comment felt like going viral.

But to endure that phase of obscurity, Jeet Mehta shared three points. The second one really resonated,

“Your audience is just you, pushed outwards.”

You are your own audience. Create for your past self. Write a book for who you used to be. Write the tutorial or guide you wish you had found. Create to help one person. And that one could be your past self.