Celebrating My First Year Blogging by Reflecting and Setting Goals for the Future

A year ago I published my first blog post and today, with this post, I have written 43 total blog posts. Looking back it has been a great year of growth and learning not just as a writer but in so many ways. Writing has become so much more enjoyable for me that it has helped improve my mental health, my relationships with everyone, and it has inspired me to research new things, I’m even reading more.

When I started this blog, I worked with my sisters on coming up with goals, and that included writing a post each week for a year and as you can see I fell short of meeting that goal. Obviously this last year has been very difficult but that isn’t an excuse, there isn’t a reason for me to be upset about not reaching the goal. Now I have a better understanding of my writing skills and just what I’m capable of as a writer.

Moving forward over the next year I will be dedicated and focused on writing every day not just once a week anymore. Since the first of June I implemented this goal and so far I’ve written every day on Medium and I have written every day for this blog but I missed posting once so far. I’m scheduling times for specific tasks now which are targeted towards the best times I’m most productive at certain tasks.

Yet another by-product of blogging was my realization of when and where I work best. Knowing those two things has significantly changed my production and I’m not going to lie here, that shit is so important I can’t believe it took me so long. All of my favorite writers have time to write where they can make the best connections and think clearly, I just never made that connection for myself before but I’m glad I have because it has made a world of difference.

Something I want to develop this next year is a content plan solidifying the consistency with my posts scheduled ensuring I don’t miss my mark again. There are a few options I would like to go over in a later article just to show everyone what I used and how it worked out for me.

Last I really was writing in a certain niche that was coffee and books but I found it was super hard at times to come up with articles for those two subjects. I really enjoy writing about so many different things, the problem I run into is I am not an expert in all of the things I write about but what’s really great about that is the more I write the more I learn. I’m excited for this next year, things will get better from here I know it’s hard now but it will get better.

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