Stratagem: Effort-less and good enough.

I think the strategy for this blog is- effort-less and good enough.

For about 2 years, I had a website for a blog that I wrote nothing into. I didn’t make it public. Didnt design it. Didn’t have a name for it. But I was paying for it!

Then about a week ago, I decided that enough was enough. Enough money had been spent and time had been wasted. If the aim was that I should have pieces of my written work that make an impact out there, then I better get to work and for this I needed to develop the practice and the discipline that was sustainable enough to ship work.

In the next 45 minutes, this blog was born. And I made rules that force me to be committed to taking this slow and steady and being okay with it and made the work nearly effortless.

1. I can't spend anytime beyond noon on the website.

2. I have to publish something everyday on today’s post.

3. I can't do more that 15minutes of designing or developing my website per day.

4. I’d log improvements in my blog and writing everyday.

So far, those rules that were initially designed to stop me from procrastinating, and protect me from the one-time wonder ditch, have only accelerated and enhanced other parts of my life. For example, publishing everyday before noon on Today’s Post meant that I have to structure my time in the mornings. I’ve a reason to wake up early in the morning so I can give each post my best shot within the time I have. Yesterday, because I planned to be here- doing what I think is the most “effortless” part of my day, I had the best sleep in ages.

My hope is effortless and good-enough will hopefully snowball into something bigger.

And not that this is of any significance but The “BLAH”g is now The blog called the “Blah”g :).

Effortless, remember?