The benefit of daily blogging

I've been writing a daily blog for 18 days now, and I'm glad I tried it. Before I started this experiment, I thought of it as a waste of time. I wanted to research and write long-from articles to present ideas in an interesting way. Doing this with a daily deadline is impossible. That I never did it anyway and didn't know how to start is besides the point. I knew that daily blogging wouldn't help me in this regard. But I found the value of posting daily to be somewhere else.

Publishing a daily post teaches you to trust your ability to execute ideas. It's easy to just do nothing and wait for the perfect idea. But the truth is, the perfect idea doesn't exist. And even if it exists and you'll find it, you won't know how to realise it. Ideas don't matter. Their execution does. So you have to learn to run with an idea without knowing where it leads.

While I knew this intellectually, posting daily really helped me to internalise it. If you force yourself to write each day, there will be days where you don't have a good idea. Without a deadline, it's easy to say "I don't like this idea. I'll start working on something else tomorrow." But if you know you need to publish something in less than 2h, you use a bad idea. And you'll make it work. You won't always be successful. And posting daily won't create your best writing. But it frees you up to turn your ideas into reality.