I thought I had already figured out my problem.
I wasn’t short on ideas.
I was just giving my online business the 1% battery version of me.
By the time work, life, random tasks and everything else had taken their share, there was barely anything left.
That was the realisation behind my last post, I Waited for Inspiration—and Lost Three Weeks.
So after writing that post, I thought:
Problem solved.
Then someone left a comment that made me rethink the whole thing.
One word stuck with me.
Containers.
At first, I was basically thinking:
What?
Like… Tupperware?
But then I got it.
The idea was simple:
Don’t sit down every day and ask,
“What should I work on today?”
Give different days different jobs.
The structure already exists.
You just fill it.
And that made me realise something.
Every time I sat down to work on my online business, I wasn’t only asking myself to work.
I was also asking myself to decide everything first.
Should I write?
Update an old post?
Make a graphic?
Reply to comments?
Find a new topic?
Check stats?
Sometimes I could burn energy just deciding what to do before I had even done anything.
So maybe inspiration wasn’t the whole problem.
Maybe decision fatigue was quietly eating the battery too.
Recently, I started giving each day of my week a job.
Monday: publish.
Tuesday: optimise.
Wednesday: repurpose.
Thursday: find the next topic.
Friday: check links, calls to action and the reader’s next step.
Saturday: look at the numbers.
Sunday: plan the next week.
And then it hit me.
Oh.
I already had containers.
I just never called them that.
Now, instead of sitting down and asking:
“What am I supposed to do today?”
The day already answers that question for me.
The day decides the type of work. I only decide what goes inside it.
That doesn’t suddenly turn me into some ultra-disciplined content machine.
And I’m definitely not about to pretend I’ve cracked the code after one week.
But it does remove one annoying layer of friction.
I don’t have to reinvent my workflow every day.
The container is already there.
I just need to fill it.
Inspiration can still show up.
I’ll happily take it.
But maybe it works better as a bonus than as the engine.
And for someone who has spent far too much time waiting to “feel ready”, that already feels like a much better system.