How to Create a Piece of Content Every Day
I’ve been reading The Practice by Seth Godin.
It’s inspired me to make a habit out of publishing an entry every day, even if it’s just a small journal entry. I can start with a blog on the website, then move towards sharing those on different Instagram pages, social media, reddit, etc.
Setting the bar high
I used to think journal entries weren’t really considered a good piece of content. I wanted every piece of content to be something amazing.
My original goal was to create a video every day. I would live stream myself working on Bonsai.so. But I quickly realized that was just impossible to do while my baby daughter was about to be born. After she was born, it didn’t get any easier. I lowered the bar to something more realistic. Once a week was even good enough for me, as long as I just kept publishing.
Setting the bar low
I think that treating things like a marathon, not a sprint, will have better long term results. Doing a live stream every day is a bit unrealistic for my lifestyle, at least right now. But publishing a piece of content from my journal is a lot more obtainable.
Here’s the workflow–
Journaling:
- Notion
Publishing:
- Bonsai Blog
- Medium
Social Media:
- Instagram- @masoninthesis and @bonsai.so
Those will be my 5 primary channels at first. Then we can expand from there if needed.
- Notion is for brain-dumping
- The blogs are for rough ideas
- And social media is for little nuggets of insight
Between that, and the occasional live streams, I should be able to put out at least 5–7 pieces of content per week.
I think the key is to make it so easy that it requires almost no additional effort from journaling or morning pages.
