The original title for this post was going to be “My Commitment To You” in which I was going to commit to writing a post at least once a week for the next five months starting at the beginning of February. Then I realized that committing to something as time-consuming as blogging regularly needs to be something I want to do for me, not for everyone else. So, my commitment to myself regarding the activity of blogging is:

I will write a reasonable length, non-filler post at least once a week for a period of five months.

I won’t start until February as I’m leaving the country for a week starting this Saturday and I plan to be nowhere near a computer while I’m gone (although I may still hit the internet if there’s free wifi to be had). I’ve also put a cap on how long I’ll do this for. If, after blogging seriously for that amount of time, I just don’t want to do it anymore, then so be it. But without giving it a serious shot, how will I know?

Naturally, the next question is, “what will I write about?”. Thankfully, I’ve got that mostly covered. I have at least a dozen post ideas kicking around and at the very least I can write book and podcast reviews since I tend to read and listen to a fairly large quantity of information in any given week.

Why Commit to Blogging?

I can imagine some of you wondering why I would make a commitment such as this. Over and above the obvious goal of determining if I really like blogging, I am attempting to make all aspects of my life better. I had some initial success last year with early rising and taking a personal hour first thing in the morning (two posts right there) but I’ve since lost the habit for both of those things. I’m now going to try something a little different in that I’m going to try and target specific activities and see if I can make them “awesome”. This won’t be easy but I think it’s a worthwhile initiative and at the very least, I’ll have something write about. So stay tuned over the next little while for what (I hope) will be some exciting ideas and let’s see where this blogging thing can go…

- Dave