I've made it halfway through my daily blogging commitment
At the end of last month I committed myself to publishing one post on this blog per day until the end of 2024. I'm over halfway there! This is just a really quick post about how this project is going. I'm writing in bullet points.
- It feels deeply rewarding to set a goal and take daily action to achieve it.
- When I am committed to something, even a daily goal, I make time for it. I'm interested in how to have this feeling of something being non-negotiable in more areas of my life. Right now, the two areas are this daily blogging, and my running. For the former, I have the accountability I've made to myself and publicly on this blog (and although this blog is new and probably only read by a couple of people, I've felt the motivation). For the latter, I have a coach that I pay for, so external accountability helps a lot.
- Some days I feel motivated to blog and some days I don't.
- It's felt a little weird and uncomfortable to basically just write stream-of-consciousness posts and then hit publish. I am doing so for two main reasons: 1. Because the goal was just to post and 2. To give myself permission to "write shitty drafts."
- I know I have less motivation and focus in the evening and yet on many of the days I've left the blogging until the end of the evening. I consistently enjoy blogging more when it happens in the daytime. I'm not able to write tomorrow morning, but I could schedule in a morning blog post Tuesday-Friday this week.
- Bear makes it very easy to just bang out a post. There's no widgets, settings, plugins, post design options, ads, stats beside me as I write here in the drafting window. Huzzah!