ABC’s
When first considering my content creation journey, I was struggling to come up with a strategy / format. One of the initial ideas was based around the alphabet, as I often joke that i can take any story (or letter) and turn it into a teachable moment.
So i’m going to put this to the test on Friday posts. Every Friday (for at least the next 52), the post will be about a word starting with the letters in sequence. So today will be A etc. I thought this was smart because it would give be at least 26 pieces of content. Then I realized twice through would give me a whole year of Fridays!
Anyway, I started a spreadsheet and began populating the columns with words in a sort of stream of consciousness way having faith that some sort of classification process would emerge. So far, not really!
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So, my plan is now to look at the words for the requisite letter (I add to the spreadsheet continuously, it sits open on my desktop) on Friday and let the story jump out.
Unfortunately, today, that didn’t work out for me. Well actually it did and Iwrote a post about Accountability. It seemed like a pretty good choice as it aligned well with the purpose of my undertaking this writing challenge and yesterday's post about thinking about thinking. There is plenty of resources to seed the discussion, and it is an important concept in an organizational context and is connected to a growth mindset.
The writing however was laboured, and struggled to find my voice (beyond the functional). I nearly published it anyway (to hit the target and be accountable :-)) but decided that wasn’t in line with my intent.
So, back to eating my own dogfood, I’m going to suck up the swing and a miss, reflect on it and see what comes up. Maybe it will surface for tomorrows post.
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