I thought using WordPress as a journal was a silly idea.
I used fancy paper notebooks. Text editors, Google Docs, anything else you can think of. None of them worked over time. I stopped.
Maybe I was not mentally ready to write down my thoughts. But I think a simpler explanation is that the WordPress app is on my phone and within reach all the time.
There is less friction.
And there is something liberating about hitting “publish”. I have learned that saving a draft means the idea dies. I have a dozen drafts and I look at them now and go “meh”. In fact I will delete them as soon as I finish this.
The freedom of done.
Moral:
- Remove friction. Sometimes that looks weird. Judge not, just look at what happens.
- Terminal action. Think, do, move on.