The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now ~David Brin.
A blog is a personal mind space where one can share their best thoughts. What prevents people like me from sharing daily thoughts is the “best” qualifier in this. Who will decide that it is the best thing you could put out. And that’s what some people also call Writer\’s Block.
If I could do this, then.. phase
Well, I have been aware of blogging and have had blogs ever since 2007. It was my first website: saurabhksingh.50webs.com. I was new to HTML, CSS, PHP and WordPress back then and managed to get free hosting here. I was surprised to know that it still is intact though I never touched it for the last 12+ years.
Sometimes looking at people blogging and earning money, I used to feel what if I would have continued blogging every day since then. I would have had a treasure of information (if not wealth :P). And I could look back to how I have transformed as a person over the years. This thought itself came some six years ago btw. And did I maintain a daily blog for all these six years? No. Even this blog has been up and running for more than two years now, and you can see here the number of posts there.
What next?
So, let me not commit anything, let me not get bogged down by my expectations again. But I will aim to share something as frequently as I could over this blog space. Why would you want to read it can get clear in due course of time, maybe. I am trying to unlearn all that I know about SEO, keywords, long-tail, short-tail and what now. I do not want to get into how Google can rank me up higher in search results and all those matters for the time being. Not that I claim mastery at all these things, but I have seen myself spending a lot of time setting things up rather than actually doing something.
Lot of the productivity videos on Youtube exactly do that. I have set up cool dashboards on Notion, built a Happiness tracker for myself and have 100 other automation and accounts set up due to many productivity hack videos. If one were to ask if I saved more time being productive or spent more time setting those systems up than I would have ever saved, my answer would most likely be the latter.
All right, I won’t take much of the time and share some bits on my readings these days. I am re-reading “The Power of Subconscious Mind” and am planning to start “Make time” by Jake Knapp soon after that. I will share my notes on the power of the subconscious mind soon.