I discovered that being creative is like exercise. If you stop doing it regularly, you’ll soon stop doing it at all. Last year, I was shooting to write 365 blog posts. After reaching that goal, I decided to cut back and write 52 posts for the rest of this year. Guess how many posts I’ve…
Wow. It’s been a month and a half since my last post. Usually, that wouldn’t be so uncommon. But I just finished a challenge to post almost daily for a year. It took longer, of course. But in the end I got 365 posts done. But I thought it would be easy for me to…
Every week, I come up with 5 possible blog post ideas. Then, I assign a date to write a post on that idea. Most of the time, I come up with a different idea instead of writing the scheduled one. And so, my list gets bigger. This happens 70% to 80% of the time. Currently,…
I’m getting close to the final stretch of my 365 blog posts. I only need 37 more posts to reach it. There have been some stumbles. Some dry patches. But I’m still going. It’s more like a marathon than I realized. You start off full of energy and hopeful. As you get further along you…
I don’t usually use “chunking” as a productivity process. Chunking is when you batch up similar types of work and dedicate time to do them. For example, I could “chunk” writing blog posts. I could spend a couple of hours on a Saturday or Sunday. And write a bunch of blog posts. In fact, I…
It’s hard to believe that we’re a third of the way through the month already. And I’m falling behind in my routines. Blogging. Running. Writing. What’s happening? November was busy. But I had a routine to keep me focused. I worked on my lines. I worked on my music. The beginning of December marked the…
Yikes. October has not been a good month for posting. I’m not sure why. I’ve got things to write about. I seem to focus on one thing only to let something else drop. I am not a good juggler. That’s for sure. My priority for October, especially the second half, has been to get my…
I’m on the other side of this self-imposed blogging challenge. I’ve been averaging a post a day since the beginning of January. Only four and a half months left to go. And I’ve noticed a pattern. I seem to do well with my posting at the beginning of the month. Sticking closely to a post…
This is my 185th post of the year. Whew! Just over halfway there to 365 posts. Originally, I was shooting for a post a day. But I decided to do the average instead. To give me the opportunity to miss a day or two but catch up later. It’s funny. Choosing what to write about…
I’m just over 40% of the way through my year of blogging. Originally planned to be a daily post. But modified into writing 365 posts. Same amount of content. A little more flexibility on how it’s done. The first couple of months were difficult. I tried to hold myself to the standard of daily posting.…
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