My friend Andy Green has decided to label this week “Failure Week” and it set me thinking. Those of you who read this blog will recognise that it has become rather occasional – one might say that I have failed to write something every day, which was my original intent.
However in my world failure is only really failure if I fail to learn from it. So what have I learned?
- I am most successful blogging daily when I have a plan – usually to write a series of articles on a particular topic (see Twixtmas or Metaprograms earlier).
- I need to sort out the ‘Schedule’ function in my WordPress – it doesn’t work and it bugs me that I have to go in every day to workaround the fact that my scheduled post didn’t make it to your wonderful eyes.
What I have learned from earlier experience is that a list of more than 2 or 3 items is less likely to get completed than a very short list – eat the elephant one bite at a time. So that’s it. I suggested elsewhere that I might write an A-Z of personal development, so I am off to compose the first few, any suggestions for topics (especially for Q, X, Z) will be very welcome.
Good luck to you Geoff…….having a plan sounds good……maybe think about what intrigues you at the moment ? If honest ..and this might be just me, but I avoid all A-Z type blogs ..they give me the sense of too much order too much structure.
I’m not averse to the A-Z concept, but it does sound like a list that is longer than your 2-3 rule of thumb (if you count each article as 1 task).
Why not start out to write an ABC of personal development instead (which will please Alan) and if you manage it, then consider extending to 3 more letters . . .
On the tricky ones. For Q you could got for a simple one on Quick, focusing on small things one can do every day to develop, or something more exotic, like Quixotic.
Don Quixote dreams up a romantic ideal world which he believes to be real, and acts on this idealism, which most famously leads him into imaginary fights with windmills that he regards as giants. (ref wikiP).
Having dreams is important to personal development, but the challenges need to be real ones . . .