#YourTurnChallenge was a 7-day blogging challenge started by Seth Godin's Special Projects Lead Winnie, which I was honored to take part in. And I'm gonna keep going!!! I've decided to extend the challenge to 30 days. I will blog everyday from Jan 19th until Feb 17th. Wish me luck and happy reading.
7 days, 7 posts, 7 chances to expose myself to the
cyberworld. Gotta say this challenge kicked my ass. I thought the challenge of
the challenge would be to try and impress my readers everyday. Get y’all hooked
into my cleverness. Ah….yeah. That went out the window, almost literally, bout
the second day in.
The Challenge just happened to coincide with a blog post I
was working on. Since the challenge started on the Monday I was to post I
thought that’s pretty cool, let’s do it. I had been working on that post for a
couple of days and I had it very much thought out. Almost too thought out. I
found as the days went on there would be no way I could post the way I had in
the past, which was spending many days thinking about what to write, working
slowly to make it as perfect as possible. I didn’t have enough time for perfect.
I decided to give myself 30 minutes to write a rough draft for each day. I’d
then leave it and come back later. Right now the clock is ticking. 26 minutes.
After I get off work tonight, around 1am, I’ll sit down at my laptop with a
glass of wine, edit the best I can, add my finishing touches then send it out
into the world. By this time it will be about 3am. Perfect, the East and
everything in the middle will just be waking up. After a few hours of dream
filled sleep I’ll sluggishly awake about 9am…ish. After I splash away the
deadness of my wake with cool crisp water, the thoughts start. The neverending
always evolving “to do list” starts. Let’s go tackle it, first some coffee.
16 minutes. In the end this challenge has taught me to just
say what I want to say. That it doesn’t have to be perfect or over thought out.
Just take out the middleman and write. Kind of like when riding bikes, first
time you hit a new trail it takes a few rides til things just flow. Or with
metal smithing, takes a bit to learn a new technique but once you’ve figure it
out you’ll be riveting faster than Santa’s Elves. I’m just excited about how
much I’m learning through writing and I think I’m getting better. And most
importantly I’ve had the support of my family and friends cheering me on and
giving me great advice to help me with the little things. Thank you, I couldn’t
have done this alone and actually, I didn’t want to.
So where do I go from here? I’ve decided to extend my
challenge. I will blog everyday for a month. I feel like I’ve progressed so
much in just a few days I wanna see where 30 takes me. 10 minutes. I hope you
will follow me along this journey. Thank you for reading.
*I'd
love to hear from you, have questions? Comments? Please contact me at
casey [at] caseyshepparddesigns [dot] com Thank you again for reading*
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