27 days ago I started the 100 Day Project and I set out to blog every day for 100 days. And naturally, this week as I was planning out my post for making it over a quarter of the way through this challenge, I missed two days of blogging. Naturally.
Ultimately though, I don’t really care. This week was a challenging one on several fronts and ultimately, blogging 25 of the past 27 days is still an incredible achievement over my prior rate of maintaining this blog with regular content before April 7. Here are some other great things I’ve learned and noticed so far with this project:
- I’m taking a lot more photos! I was really hoping that this would happen as a by-product of blogging daily, and happily it has been true. Daily photography has always been a passion project of mine and a huge hobby for many years, but the past year or so I noticed that some days, the only photos I had on my phone were meme screenshots from Instagram. This made me sad. Now I am thinking through how best to catalogue and use all of these new photos beyond my blog. Rotating inspiration board? Seasonal gallery wall? TBD, but it’s a great change.
- I’m developing more goals beyond this blog, and seeing even more success. Some of these goals are directly related to my day job, some are exercise or food related goals, some are purely for fun and personal. The point is, for me, making progress on this goal has inspired me to make progress in other areas of my life.
- I am feeling more creative. I’m using different creative skills planning, writing, shooting photos for, and sharing my blog, which is inspiring more creativity in other crafts that I have a regular habit to do already. It’s really fun to see new energy around all of the things I already love to do.
I am already so grateful for this project and am learning a lot about myself, this blog, and my future goals from this experience. If you have a goal you want to accomplish between now and July 7, it’s not too late! The best day to start is today.