Yesterday (27th)…and today (28th), one day after another…
Why do i still write five daily blogs?
Good question.
It’s been six and one-half years.
Every. Dang. Day.
Five differently-themed blogs.
mind
body
spirit
money
hq
What if i told you i don’t know why exactly?
Except for this: It’s literally impossible to begin the day without this two-hour morning investment. As the saying goes…”I set out to change the world, when in reality i changed myself.”
Is it a lot of work?
Yes.
You know what else is a lot of work?
Spending a lifetime wondering about what could have been if we would have applied ourselves more, differently, better.
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Screen shot from a friend’s Facebook feed last night. Real life in real time.
A Facebook status update from one minute ago
For curious minds only please…
One day while traveling i was very concerned about something.
It’s a first world problem that is as trivial as it gets…
What if my travel schedule made it impossible to write the five daily blogs?
So i wrote an extra day’s worth (5) the morning before departing on a long flight.
Worst case didn’t happen and i was able to write like normal the next morning.
This meant that there was now a surplus of one day.
Over time, usually on a particularly productive/inspiring weekend, after writing the normal five blogs, i’d keep writing.
Eventually this led to having a one week surplus (35 posts, or seven days multiplied by five extra posts for each website).
Somewhere between year two and three writing got even more intense and a 30-day surplus was created. i wasn’t writing to build a surplus, it’s just that i couldn’t stop writing on some days.
It was not uncommon to write 10-12 hours on a Saturday and 10-12 hours on Sunday too. A weekend like that might produce 25 – 50 posts (five to ten days worth).
Between years three and four, the surplus grew to 90 days and finally capped at 100 days ahead, a 500 blog post surplus.
Crazy.
What i’m about to write today (Aug 19) won’t go live until November 27.
It’s quirky.
It’s real.
And until it happened, it was also impossible.
So, you know those things you dream about but self-talk yourself out of?
Here’s to challenging you to stop saying you can’t.
How’s this for impossible…
It’s been 2,332 days in a row writing 5 daily, differently-themed posts. Then add in another 100 day surplus, and that’s 12,160 blog posts.
A serious wakeup call may be the only hope we have of changing.
Imagine taking 30 years to fulfill a promise to ourselves (and our family).
That’s how long it took me.
The guilt would come and go until it literally it disappeared altogether.
Thank goodness for a serious midlife wakeup call.
Baby Boomers suffer from chronic self-bullying.
Lies.
Inspiring promises we made to ourselves but never kept. Never delivered on.
Imagine a rose bush full of wonderful buds, but for some reason, the buds never open. Ever.
The original promise was in 1979 as a college Junior. “i promise to write a book about the most important things in life, for my children”.
i never intended to become a prolific blogger. In fact, it was consistent failure (and not writing consistently) that led to a crazy, self-imposed writing challenge on April Fools Day 2009… write five differently-themed blogs (about balance) for 100 straight days.
