When I decided to take my 2 year blog project on, I didn’t know what to expect, I just trusted Seth Godin when he said it was a good thing to do.
I love writing every day.
Not because it’s easy for me. It’s not easy at all.
Not because I thought of myself as a writer or had a burning desire to write.
The most writing I did before was by text on my iPhone.
But I love the challenge it brings me.
Somedays I repeat things I’ve already written (without knowing it).
Somedays I literally have no idea how I’m going to find something intelligent to say (in the end I’m never sure if it was intelligent).
Somedays I have a plan to write about a certain subject, and once I get rolling it completely changes course part way through (and then I start over).
Some days I write and write before I can collect my thoughts enough to share them (I can babble on about things that don’t matter forever).
Somedays my mom or my sister text me with spelling errors or incomplete sentences after I’ve hit publish (there have been some really bad ones, especially if I’m sick).
All of these somedays add up to a lot of days of hard.
But “hard” is a small price to pay because everyday I accomplish something meaningful before I start my day.
Everyday I have to collect and organize my thoughts before the craziness ensues.
Everyday I get to wake up and indulge myself in digging deep to find meaning in life, faith in humanity, and excavate within to sort out what it all means to me and my interpretation of it.
Everyday starts quietly with just me and my iPad. Even my dog snores through the first drafts.
I get to write about things I believe in.
I get to share my thoughts about my people, my perspectives, my life lessons, my goals, my fears, my struggles, my wins and losses, my lightbulb moments and the things that change my life.
My friend told me it’s quite remarkable that I publish a blog post everyday.
I literally had no idea about that.
What’s remarkable to me is the ways it’s changed my life and the gifts it keeps delivering.