I need YOUR help. I can't do this alone.
/I'm two weeks in to the commitment I made at the beginning of this year to publish a blog post every day in my 2022 Writing Challenge.
So far, I've been going strong with maintaining my promise to myself, with the exception of the day last week that I broke the streak of this one part of my process.
But I'm trying to keep the long-view and 2 weeks in means I've still got 50 more weeks to go (which sounds more manageable than 341 days ...).
When it comes to maintaining my goal, I’m trying to keep these things in mind:
Keep the bar low. Though I love being wordy, I'd love to use this as a practice in brevity. I feel honored that you read any of my posts at all and I doubt you want to read a 700 word essay everyday (do you??). The "rules" I created are to have a title, an image, and at least 1 sentence. At the moment, keeping a post to one sentence is more of challenge for me than writing several paragraphs!
WHY I'm doing this in the first place. I wanted to take on this project for several reasons:
I'm incredibly passionate about helping others live life on their upward spirals and part of how I do that is by communicating through writing. By publishing every day for a year, I'll have 365 potential chances of helping someone with my words.
I also want to improve my writing to increase the impact of what I'm communicating. By hitting 'publish' every day, I also am working on my editing skills (which should help in using less words!).
Document what helps me on my own upward spiral. I don't want to feel like the lessons I learn each day are slipping through my fingers. So I want to capture them so that others can continue to learn from them.
But here’s the thing: I need external accountability.
In Gretchen Rubin's framework of the 4 Tendencies I am hands-down an obliger which means for me to follow-through, I need to have someone else counting on me to show up. This is where you come in.
If I know that there is at least one person that will be looking for a new blog each day, I'm way more likely to do it.
Though I've been able to muster internal reserves for these first two weeks (with an external accountability of posting in my Instagram stories each day), I'll need help to keep me going.
So I want to know:
Can I count on you to hold me accountable for this project?
What topics or questions would you like to see me write about?
