I started blogging 5 years ago on May 12, 2008. My first post was had longer post scripts than content.
A learning a day..
The name says it all – Its just what the blog is intended to be. To help me re live some of those meaningful learnings. Hopefully, I will be able to keep up writing one a day.
(PS: I tend to have weirdly long days sometimes resulting in the next day being understandable short(36 hrs and then sleep through the next for example). So, the definition of day can be a bit..well.. shaky..
(PPS: That’s just me making excuses! Hoping to make it happen..)
I love how I make an excuse to start with (the joys of being 19, eh?). If integrity is the ability to make and keep commitment, I had pretty low integrity in those days as I didn’t have the willpower to follow up on my commitments – I did marginally better on commitments to others thanks in part to an inflated ego.
Five years and 2766 posts later, I can say with confidence that this blogging thing has changed my life. In committing the “A Learning a Day” ideal, I committed to learning more, learning better, treating failure as learning, and showing up every day. I’ve tried hard to live up to all of that.
And I’ve been fortunate to have a small readership that’s been steady, encouraging, and supporting all at once. There was a time I knew the numbers at the back of my hand but then I realized that this readership thing can really get into your head. A year or so ago, I used to check Google Analytics and Feedburner stats every couple of days to see what my page view count was. Now I do so every few months. I realized somewhere along the way that I don’t this to be the most popular blog in the world. it was a great opportunity to revisit the “why” behind this.
I blog primarily because it makes me better. This journey of learning inspires me and I share it in the hope that it will inspire others too. And I am blessed to have a small blog community of folks who subscribe to this blog via their feed readers, emails, and the like and thus take part in this journey. I treasure hearing from all of you – thank you for sharing your stories every once in a while via email and the comments on this blog.
I really am honoured for the time and attention you give my writing. I hope to continue to be worthy of it.
Best wishes and wish you a nice week ahead,
Rohan
A Learning a Day 