A blog is a great way to get your ideas out into the world and share them with others. It’s also a great place to develop your writing chops, to work out your ideas about different topics, and present your viewpoint to the world.

You can share your blog posts on social media, podcasts, in email newsletters, or even use them as book chapters (or parts of chapters). I see blog posts as a fantastic building block for other types of content.

Remember that the more you post online, the more material you are giving Google to index on your behalf. Every blog post is like a little soldier that is out there recruiting people to come back to your website.

If you don’t already have a blog, I would recommend starting one through WordPress or Squarespace. It doesn’t take very long to set up, and it could potentially change your life!

Question: How could writing a weekly blog post impact your life a year from now if you wrote every week?

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Establish a specific goal for your writing.

If you hang around other writers long enough, you’ll hear a lot of talk about habits. After all, you’re listening to this podcast about habits right now! However, the point of developing a writing habit is not the habit itself. The habit is just a mechanism to help you get the writing done.

But the question is: what are you writing? What is the end product this writing habit should be producing?

I encourage you to set some type of goal, since this is the point of doing all the writing work to begin with. Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art: Break Through the Creative Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles, said this:

This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

There is real power in simply doing the work. My question is: what are you working toward? Is it a book? A weekly blog post? Podcast episodes you’re writing, like I’ve done with this one? Freelance or ghostwriting work?

No matter what it is, I think it’s vital to have something you’re working toward, some type of tangible goal that is important to you.

Question: What is a writing goal you are working toward right now?

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