Major life accomplishment
When I started messing around with blogs I read a lot and listens to a lot. The biggest thing that I heard was to do it regularly so it became a habit and you could develop a pool of easily searched knowledge.
I tried to set aside time every week to capture my thoughts. I would use pen and paper. I was I would use keyboard and screen. But because of life and the life that I have, which included wife, children, job with shiftwork, activities, church, personal exercise and growth, I never did develop the habit of regularly sitting down for an hour to blog.
It was frustrating because all the successful people said that the only way to do it is to do it regularly. And I couldn't do it regularly.
So I came up with a different way to approach it. I ran across a couple of gurus online, Chris Brogan and Rob Hatch, who encourage the sharing of knowledge and information via email newsletters but also through videos and podcasts and every other electronic medium that you can lay your hands on. The biggest thing that they said was also to do it regularly but they also talked about using automation to do it. The automation they talked about when it ran from free to extremely expensive and so I pooh-poohed the whole idea and just kind of followed away.
But I didn't stop thinking about it. I kept thinking in looking and trying to figure out a way to make it so that I could do this and get the stuff that was in my head out into the cacophony of the Internet. And I did it!
I came up with a way to where I record my thoughts verbally, they get transcribed, I edit them, and then they get posted for me via some automation that I developed myself.
My major goal that I accomplished was posting 52 times in one year, which averages out to once a week. I did that in 2020! No, it was not every week at the same time and in a theme or subject line. But I did do it 52 times in one year.
Now my goal is to determine what I've created into a book. E-book and printed, hopefully via Kindle self-publishing, but that'll be something that I'll have to work at sitting in front of the screen.
But it's nice to accomplished on my goals. Now I just get to continue with my little system and see if I can do it again!
