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The blogging continues

24 May 2012

Today marks 30 days since I took on a 30-day blogging challenge with my friend and collaborator, Shannon Wilkinson. When she was in St. Louis to hold an in-person habits and routines workshop with me, we got to talking about blogging.

I’d been doing a pretty good job of keeping up with my blogging, but my three-day-a-week blogging habit had devolved into a two-day-a-week habit. Shannon mentioned that she’d like to blog more—she knew it would be beneficial for her busines—but found it challenging to get into a good blogging routine.

I asked whether it would help if we each committed to daily blogging (five days a week). And we decided to go for it.

I knew from experience that blogging that frequently might actually be easier than blogging less frequently. And I was right. In fact, I was right about all five potential benefits to regular blogging that I outlined in my post announcing the challenge.

You know what’s great? I met my commitment. But there are so many benefits to this daily routine that I’m going to commit to sticking with it for at least another two weeks. (And perhaps beyond.)

Shannon has done an equally committed job of blogging regularly. She had a set back at the very beginning when her site was hacked (!) but thanks to the power of the commitment, she started in on the five-day-a-week blogging as soon as her site was available again. If you haven’t already done so, I urge you to check out her blog and see some of the great things she’s been writing about.

I love the power of public commitment. And I’m really enjoying all this blogging. Thank you so much for reading!

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