9AM
Rules are meant to be broken. That’s what they say. There’s different levels to this but here’s a thought: could it be that the reason rules are broken is because those rules become outdated?
I’ve been blogging over a year now. I knew that in order to build the blog, I would have to be consistent. This was the most important thing to me. Usually, it’s recommended that you have targeted content for a targeted audience. This makes sense. The issue for me was that I did not want my own content to restrict my creativity. This is why my blog contains all types of content. I’m good with that because it allows me to express an idea, pop culture, philosophical or practical views on things, including and/but not limited to photography and content creation.
Back to the rules. When I started the blog I had one rule with an unforgiving consequence: Blog weekly on Wednesdays, if I missed a post, then the blog would be over. Yes, the rule was extreme but it was helpful. Over the last thirteen months of so, I’ve posted every Wednesday without a miss. Some days were closing, posting in the last few minutes. It’s like having to complete a test before it closes out at midnight — the pressure of it all is what makes it fun. The stress, unnecessary of course.
Today, I’m changing the rule. I’m thankful that you have come to my blog on Wednesdays to read my posts. Over the last few weeks, I haven’t announced that I was posting and with all that, new users continue to show up on the blog. With that, here’s the new rule of sorts:
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If I don’t post on a Wednesday, the blog isn’t over.
All Wednesday post will be live by 9am.
I will continue to post on Wednesdays (flows with “weekly on Wednesdays”)
In an effort to provide quality content, if its 9:01 and there isn’t a new post; no worries, I’ll post the following week and I hope you’ll be back for that.
Lastly, I won’t miss a post back to back so you can be assured that if I miss one week, they’ll definitely be content the following week.
I don’t plan on missing a post but sometimes I don’t post quality content in an effort just to post something. In honor and respect for your time, the Wednesdays I don’t have something ready, I’ll skip. I hope you all stick around for this next phase and thank you for being a part of ippyg.com
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