Celebrating Six Years of Blog Posts
Today marks six years of blog posts published every Wednesday evening. 300 weeks in a row and I haven’t skipped, forgot, or repeated. All written without an editor, though you knew that by the typos and grammar stumbles.
It’s a challenge to write every week, but it’s worth it. Writing demands thinking things through, which can be difficult especially if you want to write clearly, but thinking things through creates knowledge. Deep knowledge.
Over the last year I wrote a lot about self-awareness, mindfulness and intentions. I’m better for my meditations, and through osmosis, so are some of the people closest to me. I expect you’ll hear more on these themes over the next year.
I’ve put myself out there with my writing. With some posts I’m afraid to hit the publish key, and those are the posts that matter. My fear is the signal there’s something important in the post. I hope to write more of those.
I strive to write clearly and densely and avoid buzzwords. Innovation is the buzzword that trips me up. But like He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named, I’ll see if I can avoid calling it by name. (And never three times in the same post.) And my call-to-arms will be clearer, plainer, denser.
I’m not sure what next year will bring, but I hope it will be 52 more posts.
Thanks for reading.
Mike
Image credit – Bart.