365QOD- Day1096

Before I start the post today I want to say THANKS…THANKS…THANKS for supporting me for three years in my writing endeavors. 

Three Years of Focus

“Focus”- word my wife wrote in pencil on a wall next to my side of the bed

Three years ago on February 1, 2011 I started writing this blog.  My wife’s word was a spark.  Another spark was reading Ka-Ching and wanting to apply it.  These sparks have led me to continuously write a daily blog for each of the 1095=365*3 days.

Each year I try to reflect as to why I continue to write the posts.  The funny thing is that my wife is now one of my biggest non-supporters.  She thinks it is a waste of my time.  I completely disagree.

My blog serves as a database of experiences, stories, and  my thoughts on many subjects.  It is me without too much being held back.  I write about whatever catches my eye, makes me pause for a moment, or simply excites me.  You can look at the topics and clearly see where my thoughts are directed towards:

acceptance, action, balance, belief,ben, brand, branding, business, celebrating, change, communicating, communication, communications, connections, creativity,            decision making, demanding,  Direction,  doing, entrepreneur, exceeding, fear,  

feelings, financial, flow, focus, Franklin,giving, grit, happiness, I am, influence,       integrity, leadership, learning, learning about others, learning from others, life mission, making mistakes, mastery, memorable, 

momentum, motivation, passion,persistence, PMP,    procrastination, receiving,       result, routine, sources, spiritual, strategy, stretching,  success, success intelligence, teamwork, transitions, zen

Most of all, the blog allows me to fulfill my deepest need- to be creative each day.  It is my drug of choice.  I get a natural high from just stopping and writing a few paragraphs.  Sometimes I will read an older post and immediately see the beauty that I tried to express.

The blog is also one of my biggest challenges.   I am not a natural writer or editor.  Most often I write quickly and do not do enough proof reading.  When I sit down at the end of the year to put the book together I find it so frustrating that I did not catch 90+ percent of the mistakes. 

However, I do believe that overall the quality and length are getting better.  I do read the post most of the time before I hit publish.  And naturally over time I have increased the length in order to improve the quality of the content.  The numbers of readers are up so maybe I am succeeding.

Again, THANKS for your support and hopefully year four will be better than the first three combined.  I will be working to make it worth your while to invest the time in reading it.

Today’s question is:

“How do you make yourself to keep going for extended amount of time?”