{"id":1109772,"date":"2022-11-10T18:25:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T07:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/problogger.com\/?p=1109772"},"modified":"2022-11-10T18:25:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T07:25:58","slug":"what-i-learned-starting-my-newest-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/problogger.com\/what-i-learned-starting-my-newest-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Learned Starting My Newest Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over the past 7 months, I’ve been doing a weekly challenge on a new blog called ‘Find Your Spark’.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

My goal with it is to write a new ‘prompt’ blog post every week for 52 weeks on the topic of helping people ‘find their spark’ (and to help me find mine too).<\/p>\n

In this post, I thought I’d share some of what I’ve learned (and relearned) through doing this challenge.<\/p>\n

1. I’ve loved starting something new<\/h3>\n
While I love ProBlogger and Digital Photography School (my main blogs), it’s been refreshing to get back to writing something I’m passionate about.<\/div>\n

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2. Having a ‘challenge’<\/h3>\n
Committing publicly to write a weekly post for a year) has been very motivating for me and has helped me stay on task.<\/div>\n

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3. I’ve really enjoyed using the Ghost blogging platform<\/h3>\n
While I usually encourage new bloggers to start their blog on a platform that they control and Ghost is a hosted service – there’s also something quite freeing about not having to work out the tech challenges when starting something new. I don’t think I’d have started this project if I had to do it on my own server, with my own design, etc. I decided when I started that I would not spend much time ‘tweaking’ design or features and invest 99% of my time into creating content. <\/span>I think this has paid off big time.<\/span><\/div>\n