For those who were left inspired by the parallels but still wondering how to incorporate a daily session of BP in your busy day here’s three steps that should take you up to plate.
1. Prioritize it.
Schedule it on your calendar or to-do list.
Schedule it for the same time every day.
Make it the first thing you do each day.
Take your daily blogging practice at the start of every day. I find myself a little brighter, sharper, more creative and inspired at the start of every day. Blog before the rush of distractions interfere with writing anything of more substance than a 14-character tweet.
2. Prepare for it.
Batters warm up before they enter the batting cage.
Bloggers warm up before they begin to write. A blogger’s warm-up is reading, listening.
Reading, listening, can take place anywhere: at your home, at a restaurant, media of choice, books, ebooks, blogs, tweets, youtube...the key element is listening. There are tools like Evernote, delicious, favorites on twitter, your facebook friends and their updates that make it easy to start the day with listening. Use them.
Don’t know how? Ask. Ask me. Ask Google. Ask those you trust who use those tools. We all have had to learn and we like to help.
3. Don’t stop until you write.
Some days the ideas and the writing will all come together in a beautiful two-part harmony. Flow. Joy. Happiness. Productivity.
Other days, they act like two strangers who can barely speak each other’s names. And on those days it’s your job to bring them together. Hand-eye coordination is mastered in the batting cage. Idea-writing coordination is mastered on the daily blogging practice.
Don’t stop until you write does not mean you have to publish. It does mean you have to write. Save those posts where you struggle as drafts. Come back to them later. I guarantee there will something useful gained from not only saving them as a draft, but reviewing them.Batters bat their way out of a slump. Bloggers blog their way out of a slump.
3A. Keep writing...
On those days where the ideas and the writing will all come together in a beautiful two-part harmony...keep writing. Keep writing for the time set aside...or longer. You can publish all your results that same day. Or you can schedule them for a later date(s).
A batter keeps batting when his bat is hot. A bloggers keeps blogging when their brain is hot.Reminder: Blogging aps let us blog from home, the airport, from our offices...anywhere, offline or on. Blogging practice is merely writing practice. Unlike batting practice, you can take blogging practice from almost anywhere.
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