I think I’m going to migrate this blog over to my personal website.
As I write this post, this blog lives at jon.fit. I purchased that domain specifically for the purpose of the 100 day blogging challenge I’m participating in with a few colleagues. However, as we reach the midpoint of this challenge, I feel like I’m beginning to have a vision for what a long-term blogging habit might look like.
Why Did I Use Jon.Fit?
I used the jon.fit domain to begin with so that I had the freedom to participate in this challenge without caring too much about how the content reflects on me. I didn’t expect to write about anything career-related, and I wasn’t ready to commit to associating this content with my professional online presence.
Basically, I didn’t want to make an ass of myself and have that reflect poorly on my employer.
However, as the challenge has gone on, I find myself beginning to see the shape of what a long-term blogging practice might look like. And if I’m going to stick with this thing in the long-term, I don’t want all this content to live on what is effectively a throw-away domain.
Why Would I Want to Keep Doing This?
I’ve found blogging to be really helpful over the last 49 days, in at least two specific ways:
- Writing forces you to organize your thoughts, and blogging has provided a space for me to think through a wide variety of issues, ranging from how to respond to George Floyd’s death to strategic ways to make habit formation easier.
- Blogging about my short-term monthly goals has helped me be far more consistent in sticking to them than I have been in the past.
Those are both really valuable benefits. I’d like to keep enjoying them indefinitely.
What Might a Long-Term Blogging Habit Look Like?
At this point, I have ideas, but no firm plans. I do think I’ll end up with at least the following general types of posts:
- Workout logs: I imagine I’ll continue to post workout log type posts.
- Work hacks: I imagine I’ll continue to write about work hacks–strategies I use to maximize my effectiveness and minimize distractions.
- Habits: I expect I’ll keep posting monthly updates on my habit journal.
- Book reviews: I expect to keep writing up short reviews of the books I read.
- IRL updates: When something noteworthy happens, in real life, I’ll probably write about that as well.
Who knows what else? I don’t plan to put too many guardrails on this thing. I plan to simply maintain whatever momentum I’ve generated by blogging over the last few months.
Featured image by Erda Estremera on Unsplash
Nice! its been great reading your posts during the challenge. I look forward to see whats next.