For the last seven days, I’ve made it a point to “ship” something (a blog) every day, regardless of my schedule, how I feel, etc. No excuses.
In starting 2015, I thought publishing two posts per week would be a good starting point – so to suddenly do three and a half times that kind of fired me up. My internally competitive self said, “We can do anything for a week!”
And I’m glad I did, because I think it helped in a few different ways.
- I’m still green in the world of blogging, so it gave me an opportunity to find other people sharing content I can relate to. I’ll take their personal sites and twitter handles away from this and gladly follow along in their dialogue.
- It gave me an even greater desire to ship new content. When I have a thought to share, there’s no point in holding it back for the right time – I can just write it up and let it go. I’m now more confident in the fact that I’ll have another thought come along sooner rather than later and be able to ship even more expeditiously.
- The #yourturnchallenge has also taught me that I still have a long way to go in being able to produce content efficiently. It makes me want to continue streamlining my thoughts to get to the real crux of what I want to say. Becoming a “writer” is going to take lots of edits and re-edits! But the more I ship, the more practice I’ll get.
- Lastly, I would say that the #yourturnchallenge is another real world example of how a simple idea can create a tribe. So often, I think that it would take a huge infrastructure and all sorts of resources I don’t have. The reality is, technology makes it easier than ever to share your message and find people to follow. Kudos to Winnie!
So if you want to change your diet, change your spending habits, change your temper, change your prayer life or change anything…I would like to challenge you to give it a week. Start on a Monday. Work through Sunday. Find a group of people to support you, encourage you and hold you accountable. Anyone can do something for a week!
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