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When Not Completing Things Might Be Good For Your Blog Posted: 15 Oct 2013 08:37 AM PDT I’ve had a big mind-shift in my blogging, since I started 10 years ago… and I barely noticed that it happened. I’ve gone from being someone who completed things to becoming someone who never quite completes things…. but in a good way. When I first started blogging I set myself very specific, actionable tasks. Things like:
I would complete the task I set myself… then move on to the next task. It was very neat and I was able to measure my success on any given day by how many things I’d checked off my to-do list. The problem was that I never really learned anything from what I did. I was always starting tasks from scratch rather than building upon what I’d already built. Gradually – and it has taken 10 years – I’ve found myself seeing almost everything I do as part of a larger process of discovery, and refinement. While I still set myself deadlines to implement things, each time I ‘complete’ a task and set it live I’ve started to ask myself a series of questions that include:
So now when I complete a blog post:
When we set the new design of Digital Photography School live:
Now when I give a presentation:
Today, I still aim to complete things but on completion I find myself also looking at what I’ve done as the first step or a new beginning to build upon. Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger |
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