Beginning my weekly blog post series

This is my yet another attempt to kickstart my writing habit. This time I feel like I’ll be able to keep it up thanks to the followings:

• Motivation: It’s been always difficult to maintain the same level of motivation after the initial few week’s excitement and resolution always fizzled out. Recently, however, I realized how much of leverage one could have when one becomes very good at writing. Another source of motivation is that I wanted to improve my communication skills (I didn’t grow up in the United States but I live and work in the US).
• Tools: I found a fantastic tool called FreeWrite. It’s an e-ink typewriter free of distraction thanks to not having internet browser or apps on it. I’ve been using it since spring and it definitely helps a lot.
• Accountability partner: My friend and I decided to become each other’s accountability partner and made it a rule to publish a blog post every week by Friday midnight each week. Today i’m posting past the deadline due to a party that I hosted, ugh. Nonetheless I’m glad I still published it.

I’m quite embarrassed to look at what I just wrote. They all feel like they’re very unpolished. I look forward to looking back at these early posts in 10 years from now and see how far I came along.
Let the journey begin!