It’s now been 11 days of consecutive writing and posting on the bits & pieces blog on this website. I was originally inspired by Itching for Growth to do a 100-day posting ‘challenge.’
What drew me specifically was that when you publish daily, you will at some point, publish something that isn’t quite (or often quite far from) perfect.
I’m a bit of a perfectionist myself, and as you will see in the articles in my other blog sections, I usually take my time to write them.
Posting something that I’ve not been able to think through, research and write out nicely is definitely out of my comfort zone. The first few posts all took me at least 2 hours to write, but as the last few posts have shown, this isn’t really sustainable in the longer-term. That would be the first lesson from those first 11 days: you cannot post something completely thought-through every single day.
Although you have to stay a bit more superficial every now and then, you do think seriously about something every single day. To me, this brings a lot of satisfaction. Taking a moment to step out of the rush of the day and reflect a little makes every day a little more ‘pronounced.’
Also, there’s just some genuine satisfaction from producing a finished product every single day. We will actually get to this in the last post about the model of the drives (hopefully tomorrow), but having a result, any result, can keep you motivated to do whatever you’re doing. To use the ‘model of the drives’-posts as an example: I’ve had this idea for about half a year but never really started on it. By now, it’s virtually finished and all that’s needed is an interpretation of the end-result, the most interesting part of the exercise! I don’t know if I would have ever gotten to this point if I would only publish it as a full-blown 10/15-minute article. What’s more: I can also publish a longer in-depth article, but now I already have some scaffolding to get started.
I want to end with the biggest struggle I still have, because I am curious if this will change over the course of the remaining 87 days: is hard to come up with something of sufficient value every single day. What I found so inspiring about itchingforgrowth’s blog is that everything seems to be a nicely rounded of package: light enough for a 2–5-minute read, but still a topic completely covered.
This will be my learning goal for the months of blogging ahead!
