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7">I hope your first answer is that you want to help your readers because really that’s the better answer to all of this. This isn’t about keeping a journal, but you know that already. You have something important to say, to share with the world, with your readers. What is it?</p><p id="f1ab">Whatever your mission in writing is, it can sustain you on the tough days. And have no doubt, there will be tough days in all of this. But knowing why you’re chasing something, what you’re after, what your vision is, it can help you get there.</p><p id="f591">So, be super clear about what you want and why. Write it down somewhere. Keep it in the front of your mind. Remind yourself of what that mission is when you don’t feel like taking the extra time to do the work. When it’s hard to get up earlier, or stay up later, or to do some writing after work or before work, or on a weekend, find your fire and stoke it. That means reminding yourself clearly every time you want to quit, why you can’t.</p><p id="d93a">Missions don’t have to be overly complicated either. A few sentences are more than enough. Its main purpose is to help you know clearly and simply what you’re after, why you want it, and what it means to you. That’s it.</p><h1 id="3513">Focus on the process</h1><p id="a412">Writing is just part of it, there’s a lot more that goes into the writing process. Here’s some solid advice, shift how you think about your writing. Go from seeing it as a single task (the act of writing) to part of a larger process.</p><p id="9b41">Why? Because shifting how you think about writing will help you also break it down into manageable tasks and striking a balance between them. Not just sitting down and writing, but also making time to set-up the writing (preparing the headline and establishing the promise to your reader, making an outline or mind map, revising the first draft after, doing a second edit afterward, letting it sit before a final proofread and sending it off).</p><p id="0fec">Writing is one task of many. In order to successfully publish good pieces for your readers daily, you have to consider all of these parts and find an approach to the process that works for you and your reality. But, whatever that process winds up looking like, make time for each part and don’t just favor one over the rest.</p><p id="529b">Each part of the process is important in making valuable and read-worthy material.</p><h1 id="16a2">Create a routine, and work it</h1><p id="a3a4">Routines are the nuts-and-bolts answer to how exactly you’re going to carry this off. A writing routine answers the following questions:</p><ul><li>What defines the start of the process?</li><li>What’s the warm-up process look like?</li><li>What does the actual writing look like?</li><li>Batch writing, daily, some combination?</li><li>Where do you get your ideas and how?</li><li>How will you work rest into the process?</li><li>How will you know when you’re finished?</li><li>How will you measure your results?</li></ul><p id="37fe">A writing routine helps you figure out your action plan. What do you need to do to carry this all out, and how exactly do you put that in motion?</p><p id="d8cd">Once you have your routine in place, work it for all it has.</p><p id="a574">This doesn’t mean to keep forcing it if you notice something isn’t serving your purposes. But, you have to give it some time to make sure it isn’t just you adjusting to a new process first. This is why tracking and measuring results is so important. Measuring things, observing the process, and noting things that are and are not working is how you communicate all of this to yourself and know exactly where to make adjustments.</p><p id="a876">A writing routine doesn’t have to be complicated either.</p><p id="f802">My routine has some flexibility worked into it because I know my own nature and approach to creativity. So, I sit down to write at around 5:30 AM or 6:00 AM every

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day. I always have hot green tea, a thing of water and a thermos of hot water to refill my green tea (so I don’t have to get back up to refill it in the middle of writing). For the past month, I’ve begun every writing session with a warm-up process of writing 10 headlines and mind mapping the one that stands out to me the most. Then I dive into the writing.</p><h1 id="1e23">Put in the Pomodoros</h1><p id="fc18">I like to experiment with my approach to things. I usually try something out for at least 30-days to see if it works.</p><p id="e89f">So, I recently adjusted how I write to include the Pomodoro method. It sounds fancy, but that’s just Italian for tomato. What the process looks like in practice is to break your time down into 25-minute chunks. At the end of each chunk, you take a 5-minute break. This has to be a real break, not just sliding to a different task either (I’m a work in progress, I admit, and may have written that last part more to me than anyone else, but I’m sure you can relate).</p><p id="83c7">After 4 Pomodoros, you can take a longer break, a half an hour, or even an hour or you can call it a wrap for the day if you’ve accomplished everything you need to.</p><p id="bd6e">You may not think you can accomplish much in 25-minutes, but keep in mind that this is laser-focused work. Not task switching, or doing several things. You have 25-minutes for one part of the process. It’s flexible as to which part of the process you apply this to, or what task in general, but these chunks of time really stack up to accomplish a lot.</p><p id="31bc">Here’s the thing, you have to work rest into the process. I was previously sitting down and just writing for a solid hour or two, depending on the day and events around me. I didn’t factor in enough rest and trust me; it wore on me heavily.</p><p id="aacb">Since putting the Pomodoro process into place, I’ve managed to increase how much I get accomplished in each writing session I do. And what’s more, I come out of the writing feeling more accomplished, clearer-headed, and not overly tired (definitely not worn down as I was starting to feel before).</p><h1 id="2a89">Show up</h1><p id="e9b8">The hardest part to all of this is simply showing up and doing the work. Having the confidence to get started is about as tough as showing up, but whatever challenges there are to your confidence, it is likely fueled by the fear of showing up more than anything else.</p><p id="3034">Fear of showing up? Yes, because you understand or reasonably expect the hard work that’s ahead of you. Because the challenge ahead feels larger than life. Because you don’t presently see a way to pull this off, to actually hit publish every day.</p><p id="2271">I won’t sugarcoat it either, you’re right, it won’t always be easy. You won’t always want to sit at the desk or do the writing. You’re going to have tough days. You’re going to feel like giving up. But we both know you aren’t going to, are you? Because, I promise you, showing up like this is going to be life-changing, and more than that, it’s worth it for your reader and your writing.</p><h1 id="328e">Key takeaway</h1><p id="1547">Ultimately, everything comes down to how badly you want it, what you’ll do to accomplish it, and then just putting in the work. Work hard, work smart, get the work done. And above all, keep pushing through, keep showing up, keep doing the work.</p><p id="082d">Even when you’re tired, or don’t feel inspired or motivated or whatever else. Choose progress, push your every challenge aside, and show up for your readers. They’re waiting for you, they’re depending on you to do the work. Rise to meet your challenges and before long, you will be amazed at the writer you will become.</p><p id="8f9e">You are smart, savvy, and more than capable of accomplishing this and every goal you have for yourself. Now, get to work and get the work done. You’ve got this.</p></article></body>

7 Tips to Help You Smash That Publish Button Daily

How to publish blog posts daily

Fair warning, this post won’t be for everyone.

If you’re scared of work, aren’t willing to take on a pretty wild challenge, and really aren’t all that hungry for success at the end of the day, feel free to stop reading now.

If you’ve made it to this sentence, you’re at least curious enough to see why in the world someone would write that as their intro, right? Either that, or you are someone who is hungry for success and you aren’t scared off by a little hard work and a wild challenge that just might change everything for your blogging efforts.

So, are you ready to kick things up a notch or three and start publishing daily? Stick around, I’m going to introduce you to some pretty straightforward and honest tips on how to do that very thing. Ready to get to it? Let’s dive in.

Tools to get you started

Ink pen or writing device (for me, it’s all about the G-7 line up of pens, and always black ink)
Composition notebook
Scratch pad (Legal pad, graphic paper, sketchbook, something to draw circles on)
Green tea at the ready
Good music to help with the flow state
A timer (can be an app)
And above all, a roll-up-your-sleeves can-do attitude

Have the right attitude

I won’t lie, this won’t be easy. I can help make it easy for you, but the task of showing up and doing the work to produce quality blog posts and publish them every day will not be easy. But it is definitely worth it, for your writing abilities and for your readers.

The very first thing you absolutely must develop is the right attitude and mindset.

Find your confidence and hold onto it. You can do this, no matter how tough it may seem at first, it’s possible. Trust me, there are many ways to pull this off, just like a math problem. My role here isn’t to tell you what to do and leave it at that, but show you what you can do and then use that for inspiration for your next steps.

What’s this have to do with having confidence before you even start? Everything. This means that you can pull this off. That there are ways to make this happen if you want it. And deciding you do want it, bad enough, is the beginning of growing that necessary confidence.

Confidence is all about trusting yourself. You’ve got this.

It’s also about mindset. There are two mindsets, and when it comes to a big project like this (or really any project of any value) one will always beat the other for accomplishments and gains.

Growth mindset.

That is, having a mindset that focuses on growth, taking lessons from everything, breaking things down, and developing the key habits and next-steps that take you toward your goals. It’s also about the transformation along the way, and that’s another essential point to all this.

At the end of the day, it’s just you and the writing. Only you can decide if you’re going to get the work done. That takes a mixture of things to accomplish. A little bit of good old-fashioned determination, a willingness to believe in the possibility, faith in yourself, and knowing that no matter what, you can do this.

Know your mission

What’s the real reason you want to accomplish this? Why do you want to publish work daily?

I hope your first answer is that you want to help your readers because really that’s the better answer to all of this. This isn’t about keeping a journal, but you know that already. You have something important to say, to share with the world, with your readers. What is it?

Whatever your mission in writing is, it can sustain you on the tough days. And have no doubt, there will be tough days in all of this. But knowing why you’re chasing something, what you’re after, what your vision is, it can help you get there.

So, be super clear about what you want and why. Write it down somewhere. Keep it in the front of your mind. Remind yourself of what that mission is when you don’t feel like taking the extra time to do the work. When it’s hard to get up earlier, or stay up later, or to do some writing after work or before work, or on a weekend, find your fire and stoke it. That means reminding yourself clearly every time you want to quit, why you can’t.

Missions don’t have to be overly complicated either. A few sentences are more than enough. Its main purpose is to help you know clearly and simply what you’re after, why you want it, and what it means to you. That’s it.

Focus on the process

Writing is just part of it, there’s a lot more that goes into the writing process. Here’s some solid advice, shift how you think about your writing. Go from seeing it as a single task (the act of writing) to part of a larger process.

Why? Because shifting how you think about writing will help you also break it down into manageable tasks and striking a balance between them. Not just sitting down and writing, but also making time to set-up the writing (preparing the headline and establishing the promise to your reader, making an outline or mind map, revising the first draft after, doing a second edit afterward, letting it sit before a final proofread and sending it off).

Writing is one task of many. In order to successfully publish good pieces for your readers daily, you have to consider all of these parts and find an approach to the process that works for you and your reality. But, whatever that process winds up looking like, make time for each part and don’t just favor one over the rest.

Each part of the process is important in making valuable and read-worthy material.

Create a routine, and work it

Routines are the nuts-and-bolts answer to how exactly you’re going to carry this off. A writing routine answers the following questions:

What defines the start of the process?
What’s the warm-up process look like?
What does the actual writing look like?
Batch writing, daily, some combination?
Where do you get your ideas and how?
How will you work rest into the process?
How will you know when you’re finished?
How will you measure your results?

A writing routine helps you figure out your action plan. What do you need to do to carry this all out, and how exactly do you put that in motion?

Once you have your routine in place, work it for all it has.

This doesn’t mean to keep forcing it if you notice something isn’t serving your purposes. But, you have to give it some time to make sure it isn’t just you adjusting to a new process first. This is why tracking and measuring results is so important. Measuring things, observing the process, and noting things that are and are not working is how you communicate all of this to yourself and know exactly where to make adjustments.

A writing routine doesn’t have to be complicated either.

My routine has some flexibility worked into it because I know my own nature and approach to creativity. So, I sit down to write at around 5:30 AM or 6:00 AM every day. I always have hot green tea, a thing of water and a thermos of hot water to refill my green tea (so I don’t have to get back up to refill it in the middle of writing). For the past month, I’ve begun every writing session with a warm-up process of writing 10 headlines and mind mapping the one that stands out to me the most. Then I dive into the writing.

Put in the Pomodoros

I like to experiment with my approach to things. I usually try something out for at least 30-days to see if it works.

So, I recently adjusted how I write to include the Pomodoro method. It sounds fancy, but that’s just Italian for tomato. What the process looks like in practice is to break your time down into 25-minute chunks. At the end of each chunk, you take a 5-minute break. This has to be a real break, not just sliding to a different task either (I’m a work in progress, I admit, and may have written that last part more to me than anyone else, but I’m sure you can relate).

After 4 Pomodoros, you can take a longer break, a half an hour, or even an hour or you can call it a wrap for the day if you’ve accomplished everything you need to.

You may not think you can accomplish much in 25-minutes, but keep in mind that this is laser-focused work. Not task switching, or doing several things. You have 25-minutes for one part of the process. It’s flexible as to which part of the process you apply this to, or what task in general, but these chunks of time really stack up to accomplish a lot.

Here’s the thing, you have to work rest into the process. I was previously sitting down and just writing for a solid hour or two, depending on the day and events around me. I didn’t factor in enough rest and trust me; it wore on me heavily.

Since putting the Pomodoro process into place, I’ve managed to increase how much I get accomplished in each writing session I do. And what’s more, I come out of the writing feeling more accomplished, clearer-headed, and not overly tired (definitely not worn down as I was starting to feel before).

Show up

The hardest part to all of this is simply showing up and doing the work. Having the confidence to get started is about as tough as showing up, but whatever challenges there are to your confidence, it is likely fueled by the fear of showing up more than anything else.

Fear of showing up? Yes, because you understand or reasonably expect the hard work that’s ahead of you. Because the challenge ahead feels larger than life. Because you don’t presently see a way to pull this off, to actually hit publish every day.

I won’t sugarcoat it either, you’re right, it won’t always be easy. You won’t always want to sit at the desk or do the writing. You’re going to have tough days. You’re going to feel like giving up. But we both know you aren’t going to, are you? Because, I promise you, showing up like this is going to be life-changing, and more than that, it’s worth it for your reader and your writing.

Key takeaway

Ultimately, everything comes down to how badly you want it, what you’ll do to accomplish it, and then just putting in the work. Work hard, work smart, get the work done. And above all, keep pushing through, keep showing up, keep doing the work.

Even when you’re tired, or don’t feel inspired or motivated or whatever else. Choose progress, push your every challenge aside, and show up for your readers. They’re waiting for you, they’re depending on you to do the work. Rise to meet your challenges and before long, you will be amazed at the writer you will become.

You are smart, savvy, and more than capable of accomplishing this and every goal you have for yourself. Now, get to work and get the work done. You’ve got this.