One year ago today, I was sitting at a Starbucks on Peachtree Street in Atlanta. I had finished work at FEE and walked up to Starbucks to get some work done on the curriculum for the first month of Praxis.
At the time the first month was about digital skills. The deliverable was launching a personal website and writing an intro post about our personal brand.
And so I wrote this.
Three hundred and sixty-five days and one hundred and thirty-nine posts later a lot has changed.
Writing a post has gone from a marathon task of battling procrastination over multiple days, to something I have done for the last 84 days in a row. I can now confidently turn and idea into a publishable blog post in 30ish minutes.
My writing has improved, but my standards have also dropped immensely. One of my first posts addressed the fear and unrealistic standards that led me to avoid writing for so long. How perfection had become a prison for me.
About a month later I had a story go viral on Medium. 40,000 people read it.
Two months later Huffington Post reached out to me about republishing my articles.
And now, one year later I’ve moved away from Atlanta, spent a summer in Canada, and am finally preparing for the next adventure.
A lot is going to be changing. We’re flying to Singapore in ten days and will be spending the winter working and traveling in Asia.
What won’t be changing is my commitment to regularly producing content.
This adventure will be great material for the podcast and for this blog. Over the next year I’ll have some amazing stories to share, and hopefully some new and valuable insights.
Writing for me is a creative release. When I go for a week without writing out an idea, I get creatively constipated, and I start to go crazy.
I haven’t monetized my blog, I haven’t generated much traffic to my site, I haven’t become a well-known blogger, but I have improved a shitload, learned a lot about myself, and improved my thinking on a bunch of topics. The value of 139 blog posts has been the internal effects. One year later I look back and just wish I had started sooner.
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