I published my first blog article on May 5, 2016. It sucked.
Over the next several years, I published about a hundred more. They all suck, with maybe a few exceptions.
I found that Resistance’s biggest weapon in my personal fight to publish was the complete lack of constraints around what I was trying to accomplish — too many variables.
What was I trying to say?
How often should I publish?
Who was I trying to say it to?
What was my goal?
What was the skill I was trying to learn and use?
And a million other questions and variables.
A few months ago, I committed to publishing articles daily for a year. Those 365 will more than triple my output from the previous five years. To do so, I knew I couldn’t approach it the same way. I needed to cut out some of the variables and add some constraints.
The constraints I added were to keep each article to less than 250 words, publish at 8:44 am each day, and focus the content on helping people see other perspectives through transformative storytelling.
So many times, we get caught up in blaming constraints for why we can’t or don’t — if only I could do whatever I wanted. When, in fact, maybe those constraints are the very reason we can and do.
Where do you need to add some constraints?
