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Hand writing a blog on a piece of paper

Posted on by philipdodson

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I have not hand written more than say my name and address, so a few words, on a piece of paper for what seems like a decade or more.

I never had brilliant handwriting even when I was writing regularly on paper. My teachers often joked that I should become a doctor with writing that bad. Never quite got the joke, something to do with doctors scribbling prescriptions so quickly that they are often illegible.

I am not sure this will ever get published either, as I won’t be able to read it when I come to typing it up when I am repatriated with my Chromebook.

This feels so odd writing by hand now, I have lost the skill to write quickly and clearly. Also, without my now life-saving Grammarly App to correct my grammar and typos, it’s even stranger.

However, as I am writing more, it is strange how I am starting to like doing this, perhaps there’s a novelty factor.

Of course, productivity-wise, it would be almost laughable to return to handwriting everything. But in terms of pleasure and a real sense of creating something by hand and putting pen to paper, it is an art, and art has a soul and productivity does not.

We have lost a lot of soulful things in the never ending embracing of technology, efficiency and productivity.

From now on, I plan to do a bit more handwriting.

80 days

Posted on by philipdodson

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What can you achieve in 80 days? Well you could go around the world in it.

Well today is day number 80, of 80 straight days in a row, of writing and posting a blog post each day. I am aiming to do a whole year, 365 days. So I’m about a quarter of the way through.

I am not posting this to say ‘wow, look at me’, as apart from my Mum, no one cares.

I am posting this to get you to think about what you could achieve in your life, if you stuck to doing something every single day?

One of my challenges in life has been commitment to doing something regularly, even though, I know that doing things regularly is vitally important in being successful.

I talked only yesterday about changing habits, and that is what this writing is doing for me. I love doing the writing anyway and I genuinely write this for myself. However, seeing how the number of views, visitors and likes have been growing, and now starting to really grow, has proved to me that commitment works.

Nearly 3 months in, and the start of what Darren Hardy describes as the compound effect, is starting to happen. I am now more than ever inspired to keep going.

Now the key thing is to apply this learning to other areas.