Post 26. Wow.
With a new post every week, that means I've been working on this blog for half a year. Six months. I wanted to take the chance to make evaluate where things started and where we've ended up.
A year ago, I was feeling a bit overwhelmed. Although I've always had a focus on NOT being in the rat race of life, I was feeling the wheel pulling me in and locking me down. Life was progressing, but was it progressing how I wanted? I couldn't tell you, all I knew is that I was busy getting things done. I can also tell you that my stress levels were high while my energy levels were low.
That's when the philosophy of Boredom started to form. Initially, it was a struggle. Cutting activities and distractions out of your life is a hard task. Do the same thing for a blended family of 5 is near impossible. But we slowly persevered.
Six months in and I was starting to see dividends from our efforts. I decided to share my knowledge with a broader audience. The blog was born. I had no clue what I wanted to do with it. I still don't know, but I do know I should continue writing and see where it lead.
Creating the blog led to becoming semi-active in Reddit as both a topic contributor and comment contributor. I was a long time lurker but had never had a desire to post. It led to reaching out to a few of my favorite content creators, asking for feedback, and receiving some interesting and useful advice. It led to reaching out to some newly discovered content creators who were writing about the same subject matter, and starting some exciting dialogues while gaining some recommendations on some interesting books and articles to read.
As time passed on, I realized writing posts for the blog wasn't enough. It was an outlet for my voice, allowing me to tell my story, but it felt like the site needed to be more. The blog broke into three sections. In addition to telling my story, it became the home of my permanent Personal Control Book along with the transient accountability Weekly Update.
The Personal Control Book has become the containing force, ensuring I maximize my time and energy to it's fullest. The Weekly Update has become the driving force to make sure a week doesn't go by where I'm not in some form advancing one of my goals.
After executing against the PCB for a few months, my train of life was chugging along at full steam ahead. From a random conversation with a business associate, I found my first guinea pig to try out the PCB for herself. It was a success, so I reached out to strangers. That's currently a work in progress, but I'm determined to make it a success regardless if it takes one, two, or ten groups. I've even built a Business Control Book for a different business associate and started helping them progress through that.
As of this writing, I've created or helped create 26 posts, 5 PCBs, 1 BCB, 3 permanent pages describing my PCB, and 15 transient Weekly Updates. I feel blessed to be able to create this content and have the opportunity to continue writing. I can't wait for what the next six months will hold.
(Written 2019.05.28)
With a new post every week, that means I've been working on this blog for half a year. Six months. I wanted to take the chance to make evaluate where things started and where we've ended up.
A year ago, I was feeling a bit overwhelmed. Although I've always had a focus on NOT being in the rat race of life, I was feeling the wheel pulling me in and locking me down. Life was progressing, but was it progressing how I wanted? I couldn't tell you, all I knew is that I was busy getting things done. I can also tell you that my stress levels were high while my energy levels were low.
That's when the philosophy of Boredom started to form. Initially, it was a struggle. Cutting activities and distractions out of your life is a hard task. Do the same thing for a blended family of 5 is near impossible. But we slowly persevered.
Six months in and I was starting to see dividends from our efforts. I decided to share my knowledge with a broader audience. The blog was born. I had no clue what I wanted to do with it. I still don't know, but I do know I should continue writing and see where it lead.
Creating the blog led to becoming semi-active in Reddit as both a topic contributor and comment contributor. I was a long time lurker but had never had a desire to post. It led to reaching out to a few of my favorite content creators, asking for feedback, and receiving some interesting and useful advice. It led to reaching out to some newly discovered content creators who were writing about the same subject matter, and starting some exciting dialogues while gaining some recommendations on some interesting books and articles to read.
As time passed on, I realized writing posts for the blog wasn't enough. It was an outlet for my voice, allowing me to tell my story, but it felt like the site needed to be more. The blog broke into three sections. In addition to telling my story, it became the home of my permanent Personal Control Book along with the transient accountability Weekly Update.
The Personal Control Book has become the containing force, ensuring I maximize my time and energy to it's fullest. The Weekly Update has become the driving force to make sure a week doesn't go by where I'm not in some form advancing one of my goals.
After executing against the PCB for a few months, my train of life was chugging along at full steam ahead. From a random conversation with a business associate, I found my first guinea pig to try out the PCB for herself. It was a success, so I reached out to strangers. That's currently a work in progress, but I'm determined to make it a success regardless if it takes one, two, or ten groups. I've even built a Business Control Book for a different business associate and started helping them progress through that.
As of this writing, I've created or helped create 26 posts, 5 PCBs, 1 BCB, 3 permanent pages describing my PCB, and 15 transient Weekly Updates. I feel blessed to be able to create this content and have the opportunity to continue writing. I can't wait for what the next six months will hold.
(Written 2019.05.28)
