Day 730: The End.
Today is my 25th birthday, and this is it. Day 730. Two years of daily blogging in a row, nonstop. I made it!
No matter what I do in my life from here on out, that achievement can never be undone. That brings a delicious sense of satisfaction!
I’m grateful for every single one of you who have been with me on this journey. For my readers, whom although I don’t know, I felt a tremendous sense of accountability to complete. For my clients, who frequently inspired ideas for blog posts. For my boyfriend, Daniel, who patiently waits for me to finish a blog post before I can go to bed. For my past self, for setting myself this goal. And for Sean Wes, for inspiring me to do it in the first place.
Here are some of the things I learned, after two years:
Blogging isn’t a habit you can build. It definitely didn’t become automatic after 21 days. The habit I built was discipline.
It’s okay to do B– work. When you embark on a project like daily blogging, perfectionism really gets kicked to the curb. (If you want to let go of perfectionism I highly recommend publishing something daily!). Although I developed my writing voice throughout the process (someone described it as “punchy”!), some days I just settled for a really average, really boring post. And I’m okay with that.
Accountability is everything. I had many days where I considered stopping. But I had publicly announced it so many times that it just felt like there was no option but to go on.
Another key reason I stuck to it when I didn’t feel like it was just how big the goal was. I felt like, if I’d already done 43 days, or 202 days, or 564 days, how could I stop now? That’s the power of setting impossible goals.
Learning to show up daily is one of the best things I’ve ever done. Now I trust myself to hit any goal I set myself – because I know that I’m willing to show up, even on weekends, and Christmas, and birthdays.
And so now, I’m done. I considered continuing with daily blogging, but I decided not to.
Endings are wonderful.
They provide space for new beginnings.
And I’ve got some new impossible goals to attend to. (I promise I’ll still post on occasion, I’m not deserting this blog forever!).
Until then, thank you for coming along on this wild ride.
THE END.
