Running and Blogging Everyday, a Commitment to Yourself and Team

From Seth Godin on Friday early morning,

“Sometimes the rule is:

You don’t have to finish, but you do have to get started.

And occasionally the rule is:

You don’t have to get started, but if you do, you have to finish.

When setting up a individual practice, it could make sense to embrace the to start with rule. You don’t have to run all the way, just about every working day, but you do have to get out of the house and get started operating.

And when producing promises to a group where trust matters, the 2nd rule certainly applies.”

Ongoing my imagining of operating versus blogging.

Come next thirty day period, I’ll have run just about every working day for five several years.

I did not have to get started this streak or to finish it, whatsoever finishing a streak of operating day to day implies.

I just bought up and commenced operating a person early morning – and under no circumstances stopped.

5 weeks in the past, I determined to website just about every business enterprise working day.

I did not say nearly anything to anybody, I just blogged a person working day, and the next, and the next.

Till I did say one thing to my teammates in our weekly standup a week or two afterwards. I explained to them if I could run just about every early morning, I could website day to day. Each took the similar time, about thirty minutes in addition, so why not.

I blurted it, without having a large amount of considered (it’s possible a miscalculation), to make me website and to encourage my teammates to website – for individual growth, to increase their expert network and to make LexBlog’s existence and track record.

I also wanted to show to my group that I’m performing my way back again into the saddle and will be routinely blogging as a implies of networking through the web. This sort of networking constantly results in relationships that increase our business enterprise.

So where am I at?

Opposite to Godin, I do have to run day to day. It’s each a practice bringing individual gains and one thing on which I cannot allow myself down.

I need to finish. I need to run just about every working day right until I cannot.

Unfortunately, I’m with Godin on blogging. I did not have to get started blogging just about every working day, but now that I made a assure to my group, trust matters. I need to website just about every working day right until I cannot.