Peace of Mind Organizing

The 30-day blogging challenge

24 April 2012

My friend and collaborator, Shannon Wilkinson, was in St. Louis last week for a visit. We held the workshop, Create Freedom and Ease with Habits and Routines, did some great bargain shopping at the Scholarshop and had some great discussions about our businesses.

We both talked about blogging more and about how it can be easier to blog more often. And we challenged one another. For the next 30 days, we committed to blogging five times a week. Since the challenge starts on a Tuesday, Shannon’s first day back in the office, we’ll be blogging four times this week.

My intention (and commitment) is to publish a blog post each Monday through Friday between now and May 24. My blogging goal for the past two years was to blog three times a week. Lately, that’s dropped off a bit. Today, I’m ready to get back on the horse and blog more frequently.

Here’s how I think blogging five times a week will benefit me:

• It will help engrain the habit of daily blogging
• It takes the pressure off of each post to be brilliant, since it will be replaced in about 24 hours
• It will allow me to get creative…I suspect I’ll be doing a few photo blog posts and maybe even a video blog post or two (something I’ve been wanting to try)
• It will help me see the world through the eyes of a blogger again. Blogging that frequently makes everything a potential blog post.

So watch this space (and keep an eye on Shannon’s blog too!) and I hope you’ll see a fun array of blog posts about organizing, knitting, perhaps some family history research and who knows what else!

Tagged with: blogging, commitments, habits, shannon wilkinson, writing

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