A Month of Content

It’s December 1. So I decided to issue a challenge to myself; and you can join in on the fun.

The challenge: Create Content Every Day. Each day, for 31 days. The entire month of December.

Throwing down a gauntlet.

There’s really no catch here: come up with something new, repurpose something old. Remember, “systems vs. goals.” Your mission is to create a “system.”

Hey, It Worked for Jerry…

As the story goes, Jerry Seinfeld decided to build a writing habit by getting a big calendar and putting an “X” on each day after writing. Once you see a series of X’s — first one, then two, then next thing you know it’s a week straight —you start to build confidence.

Then the process gets refined, you get better at what you’re doing, and you have even more confidence when you realize how much you can accomplish in 30 minutes. Then an hour. Then two hours.

Or, Borrow from James Clear

Clear’s book Atomic Habits sits nearby. It’s a great read — and one I wrote about in my August 16 edition of The Saturday List on my Substack — and one nugget has really stuck with me. This one:

I’ve faced challenges with this trying to build a habit of going to the gym or getting exercise; but just saying to yourself “Hey, I missed yesterday, so I can’t miss today” is often just enough of a trick to keep at it.

What’s Coming from Dave?

Good question: posts like this, sure, but also new stuff…and some “merchandising” of old content, too.

Like these: podcast interviews that a friend JUST told me “you should do more of these.”

While I line up the “more of these…” here are three of them:

First up, an October 17 interview with writer and professed music nerd Stephen Barrigar.

And this one, a few weeks later, with writer and blogger Jennifer Brown:

AND, why not a throwback: Jim Rogers, in February of 2021. (We both looked so young!)

How Will You Make These 31 Days Count?