As with any new year comes plans for new things. I learned a lot about myself in 2020. The main thing that I learned about myself was that I love to create things. I love creating music, obviously. Aside from that though, there are tons of other things I like creating and those things are what I want to spend most of my time doing.
With creating comes the practice of shipping or publishing. Seth Godin, a prolific writer and speaker, talks a lot on his daily blog about the practice of both creating a thing but also about shipping a thing. Shipping can also refer to publishing or basically putting something out into the world. I have lots of ideas and joke that in another life, I should be employed by a progressive think tank because of how many ideas I have just floating around in my brain. Just because I have lots of ideas though, that doesn’t mean that those ideas ever see the light of day. Actually most of them don’t, which is the point. I think the point is to have the ideas and to be able to continue to generate lots of bad ideas so that you can eventually ship or share the good ones. So after thinking about how I want to spend my time and want I want to do creatively for 2021, I have come up with a plan.
My plan for 2021 is to publish or to create something everyday. A big plan indeed! Now, I know what you’re thinking. If you’re anything like me you’re thinking, Ciyadh, that is A LOT and you’re already doing so much, how could you have time for more?! At least, this is what I’ve been saying to myself. Even though I know I’m already doing a lot, I want to create something everyday. I want to put something out into the world every.single.day and this blog will be my way of doing that.
Everyday you can expect something to show up here on this blog. I’ll be creating a variety of things really. Some of those things will be more thought out and polished while others will be musings and made more on a whim. In other words, there will be some really long and other posts will be really short. Honestly, I am not worried about length really. I’m most concerned with iterating and shipping content on a consistent basis and daily basis.
Now, I do as you might have expected, in addition to my plan for creating something everyday on this blog, I have a plan and schedule for what types of posts will appear here. It’s not set completely in stone and I’ll be using January as a test to see how to best go about this little endeavor.
Here is the list of things that I’ll be publishing or creating:
Blog Posts
YouTube Videos
Podcasts
Newsletters
Essays
Streams
Social Media Posts
My hope is that I’ll be able to link each of these types of posts here on the blog, obviously if they aren’t blog posts. I might miss some and that is okay! If I do miss linking the posts daily, I’ll do a weekly round-up, probably on Saturdays or Sundays, of what I did publish / create during the week.
I’m telling you because of public accountability. I am a person who thrives on accountability and while sometimes I fail or don’t meet the intended goals, I want to hold myself accountable to you and that is what is most important to me.
Part of all of this is about you, my dear reader. Please, please if you have any feedback, do let me know. You can use my contact page to send me an email, send me a DM, telegram, note by carrier pigeon, etc. This and any of my projects are as much yours are they are mine.
So there it is, these are my creative plans for 2021. In the coming weeks I’ll go more in-depth about the different types of posts / content I’ll be creating and how that fits into my work as a creator, so be on the lookout for those!
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Until tomorrow!