Four years of daily blogging

It’s hard to believe that today makes four years since I started writing every day. It’s also amazing to me that my core purpose for blogging hasn’t really changed either. If anything, I’ve continued to dig even deeper into my reasons for doing this.

In particular, I’m doing and more and more to give myself reasons to revisit old posts and previously-read books. I recently heard Seth Godin mention that he listened to old tapes of Zig Ziglar so often that he had memorized around 75 hours of his talks. Building that kind of repetition into his mind has certainly shaped who he has become.

That leads to my ever-present question of how frequently to tackle new content versus reviewing the old. For now, I’m trying to continue to push forward on both, which is clearly not feasible in the long run. I plan to keep posting daily on here, and then using things like our virtual book club (talking about “Contagious” next; email me if you’d like to join us) and the consistently-growing Stacking Knowledge podcast.

If you’re new here in the past year, here are some thoughts on why I’m doing what I’m doing:

Why I’m Writing Every Day Some thoughts on why I decided to start doing this.

Get Writing in 2021 Some related thoughts from Seth Godin on why you should blog daily.

Blogging beats journaling Why I blog in public rather than journal in private.

To write more, read more How I find ideas for new posts.

How I plan out my future posts Some thoughts on getting my posts organized.

WordPress Editorial Calendar plugin A great (free!) plugin that I use to help lay out my blogging schedule.

Sharing the posts I write My daily plan (at least at the time) for sharing posts after they’re published.

Here’s to the next 1,000 posts!