January Blogging
Feb. 3rd, 2025 08:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerI've been meaning to write about my January blogging for a few days now but have encountered the "I don't wannas". As in, the repeated feeling that I don't wanna write. Well, after putting that off a few days it's now collided with another thing I want to write about, so now I'm going to put them together.
January started off strong, blogging-wise. I was posting 2-3 entries a day as I was catching up on journals from our trip to Panama in December plus writing my usual handful of new-year retrospectives. Then I hit the skids. What happened? In a word, dis-spiritedness.
A week of being sick gave way to bad news at work: sloppily made (IMO) cuts to my department's staff. And the work bad news kept coming, with an almost daily cadence of resignations. People I liked working with and whose accomplishments I respected were making individual no-confidence votes in leadership and turning in their notice. I wrote about all that bad news, but that was about all I could manage to write. My blogging dropped to one journal a day for much of the rest of the month.
So, where did I land, stats-wise? Overall January wasn't a bad month for blogging. I managed a total of 53 journal entries, comfortably passing my "middle" goal of averaging 1.5 per day. I also continued the streak of meeting my baseline goal of posting something every day. There were a few days last month when it was hard; a few days where it was already 9pm and I was thinking, "Maybe I break my streak today." But I kept up with my commitment. My streak stands unbroken for more than 300 days.
January started off strong, blogging-wise. I was posting 2-3 entries a day as I was catching up on journals from our trip to Panama in December plus writing my usual handful of new-year retrospectives. Then I hit the skids. What happened? In a word, dis-spiritedness.
A week of being sick gave way to bad news at work: sloppily made (IMO) cuts to my department's staff. And the work bad news kept coming, with an almost daily cadence of resignations. People I liked working with and whose accomplishments I respected were making individual no-confidence votes in leadership and turning in their notice. I wrote about all that bad news, but that was about all I could manage to write. My blogging dropped to one journal a day for much of the rest of the month.
So, where did I land, stats-wise? Overall January wasn't a bad month for blogging. I managed a total of 53 journal entries, comfortably passing my "middle" goal of averaging 1.5 per day. I also continued the streak of meeting my baseline goal of posting something every day. There were a few days last month when it was hard; a few days where it was already 9pm and I was thinking, "Maybe I break my streak today." But I kept up with my commitment. My streak stands unbroken for more than 300 days.
