Launch a simple blog like this one and start writing your first article in less than 20 minutes
A step by step video course showing you exactly how to set up your blog, design it and start writing daily articles.
If you get stuck, which is unlikely, I will personally help you get unstuck.
I believe that everybody should start a blog.
So does Seth Godin.
"Committing to having a point of view and scheduling a time and place to say something is almost certainly going to improve your thinking, your attitude and your trajectory. A daily blog is one way to achieve this. Not spouting an opinion or retweeting the click of the day. Instead, outlining what you believe and explaining why. Commit to articulating your point of view on one relevant issue, one news story, one personnel issue. Every day. Online or off, doesn't matter. Share your taste and your perspective with someone who needs to hear it. Speak up. Not just tomorrow, but every day. A worthwhile habit."
And Tim Ferriss.
"The daily blog...it's one of the top 5 career decisions I've ever made." "I don't need anyone's permission. I don't need to go out and promote it. I don't use any analytics. I don't have comments. It's just: this is what I noticed today and I thought I'd share it with you." "Everyone should blog, even if it's not under their own name, every single day. If you are in public, making predictions and noticing things, your life gets better, because you will find a discipline that can't help but benefit you. If you want to do it in a diary, that's fine, but the problem with diaries is because they're private you can start hiding. Are you able, every day, to say one thing that's new that you can stand behind?"
A daily writing practice does a few things.
- Allows you to synthesize
- Clarifies your beliefs
- Cuts the fat
- Clears your mind
- Helps the world by acting like a filter for poor information
- Helps you become a better communicator
- Helps you become a better thinker
- Helps you navigate this crazy world
A journal is great. I try to journal every day.
But it’s missing a pivotal piece of the puzzle.
Your daily writing must check 3 main boxes:
- Low barrier to entry
- Consistency
- Public
You daily writing should be super easy. You should be able to open your laptop, write, edit, and publish without friction.
You should be consistent, hints the ‘daily’ part of daily writing.
You must have an external motivator keeping you consistent and thoughtful.
Once you pick up some momentum, you will start to see a shift in your life.
Instructions
- Set up a simple blog
- Carve out a time every day for writing
- Write, edit, cut the fat, publish
- Repeat, every day
When I wanted to start a blog about 6 years ago, I kept running into problems. I tried over 6 different platforms and ran into roadblocks with each.
- Too steep of a learning curve
- I could never get it to look the way I wanted
- Too expensive
- Too many unused features
- Not enough features
- Couldn’t connect my email opt-in form to gain subscribers or couldn’t make it look how I wanted
- Struggled to connect my domain
- Struggled with the back-end hosting stuff
The options are endless, but here are some examples that can be created or installed in a matter of minutes!
Imagine, in 20 days you could have 20 awesome blog articles on your new blog. It just takes starting. Pulling the trigger and trusting that if you do a little today, in a week, month, year, you will have created something big.
