Chris Brogan wrote a piece on his site about writing three blog posts per day. When talking about blogging, I often hear these things:
- I don’t have time
- Where do you find the time to keep engaged
- It takes so much work
- There’s no way I can do that
This is how Chris finds time:
- I don’t watch TV.
- I don’t read blogs endlessly.
- I don’t wait in lines without doing two things at a time.
- I get up before my kids (if I can help it), and write while they’re at school.
- I don’t do phone calls or meetings if I can help it. If I have to, I keep them VERY brief.
- I’m trying out Dragon Dictate for the Mac (no review yet).
- I can type really really fast.
I like TV and I read blogs endlessly. I’m not super productive while waiting in line. I don’t have kids. I’m always in meetings. Dictation software doesn’t understand me. I can type fast.
As a result, I’m averaging about three posts a week instead of day. My goal is to be able to sustain two to three posts per week.
Whenever someone says they don't have the time it means they actually haven't put blogging high enough on their priority list. I've been writing 2 blog posts a day for about a year now.
If you go back, my posts were in batches, then months of no updates, and then back again. I'm committing myself to get at least three a week and so far its been almost one every day. Thank you for the inspiration.