#15 of what, you ask? This is my 15th consecutive blog since my goal, 15 weeks ago, to post a blog once a week.
YAAAY!!!!
This is a big deal to me given that prior to starting this, I had probably posted an average of 5 blogs a year. Seriously. You can go back and see for yourself. Oh, there might be two or three right in a row, a few days or a week apart, but then you’ll see months between the next ones. Despite loving to write, I just couldn’t get a handle on regular posting.
But this year I really wanted that to be different. Writing is important to me and I’m always so tickled any time someone reads my blog and leaves a comment or sends me an email. I like to imagine that maybe something I write will spark a conversation or a new way to think about something.
So this goal felt really important to me – which is probably a key reason I’ve kept it up. But I’ve learned a few things in the course of keeping this goal that I thought I would share with you in honor of #15:
Tell someone else what your goal is. If you’re like me and hate breaking your word, it will help hold you accountable.
Just do the thing and don’t get precious about it. I can tell you that at least half of these 15 blogs were not my best work, but that was never my intent. I wanted to write, and I wanted to share ideas and thoughts and conversation-starters with other people. If I hold it so tightly that it needs to be “publish-worthy,” I know I’d never post.
Any encouragement is meaningful. Would I love to have millions of readers? Sure, who wouldn’t. It’s probably more like a couple dozen, but sometimes I get an email from someone or a comment on one of the channels I posted to and I feel downright gleeful knowing something I wrote mattered to just one person. Just to be clear: most times, this is my mom. Thanks mom!!!
Progress, even slow progress, matters. After 15 weeks, it’s a little easier to put my thoughts together, a little easier to find the words that match those thoughts, a little easier to let go of the worry about whether it’s good enough. I wonder what will be easier 15 weeks from now…
What will you make your first iteration of today?
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