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100 days of blogging

Fabrizio1 Comment

Today marks my 100th day of blogging. 100 consecutive days.

It’s just been a bit more than three months, and already I can identify some pretty good benefits from my practice.

First of all, I am getting better at fighting resistance. Resistance is with me basically every day I open the WordPress app on my PC, it is with me even before that. I have stopped listening to it. Even though a post is not the best possible I could write, even when I have no idea what I will blog about, even when I am tired and drained. I go on.

Then, I am less and less critical of what I write. This is, and will probably always be, a difficult balance to strike for me. I do not want to write shit, I want to make sure my thoughts are clear and digestible, and at the same time I need to not over worry about the content I am putting out here (if I’ll do, I’ll get stuck). So far, it worked.

And finally, my opinions and ideas are crystallizing. I have started writing things down few years back to make sure I could be more comfortable when speaking, for example before important conversations or meetings. Yet blogging every day allows me to clarify my thoughts on a wider range of topics, and this is something that I feel will continue to add up as I keep at it.

Very happy to have made it this far. Now, let’s go on.

 

Commit publicly

Fabrizio3 Comments

Another good practice related to goals and propositions is to make them publicly. It adds to the commitment and it makes it more difficult to hide.

So, here are mine for 2019.

  1. Meditate every day. I have been doing it in 2018 as well, and even though I am stronger in my practice now, I want to take the average daily meditation to at least 15-20 minutes (it is safe to say that in 2018 my average daily meditation has been between 5 and 10 minutes).

  2. Read at least 10 books. Another goal I also had in 2018 (I read 15 books in the end), and since I will have additional challenges this year, I want to commit to reading once again, as much as possible, whenever possible.

  3. Write a blog post every day. This is new, challenging, something I have been wanting to do for a while. As I said earlier, it is worth starting now. 

Resolutions

Fabrizio4 Comments

Few things to keep in mind as the year ends and we set out to achieve everything we have not achieved so far in the next 365 days. If you are going to set goals for 2019:

  1. Be honest, do not put on the list things you have never thought of doing before today, you are not doing this to impress anybody. Focus on what you know you can do but have just been too lazy, busy, distracted until now to do.

  2. Be measurable, as things like “be kinder”, “be better at …”, “do less of …” are perfect set-ups for failure.

  3. Be kind to yourself, remember that a year is long and unexpected things can get in the way. Perhaps you won’t get to 100% completion, and still 70-80-90% is quite good, and you will be proud of it.

Another try

Fabrizio6 Comments

The best time to start blogging was 20 years ago. The second best time to start blogging is today.

-Seth Godin

I have been blogging all my life. Sometimes in public, sometimes in private. I have been extremely inconsistent with writing and posting, I have changed blog many times, changed platform many times, always looking for the perfect context, the perfect tool, the perfect idea, the perfect title.

So here is another try. Strong with the awareness that perfect does not exist. I want to leave a trace every day, for one year. And then see what happens. I start today.