I published every day in 2025

The greatest benefits of a daily creative practice are all personal. Sure, the daily blogging helped earn almost 60,000 website visits this year. Yes, these blogs inspired many of the scripts for my short-form content. Indeed, some blogs even become chapters in my books. But none of these benefits are as meaningful as the personal ones. 

The reason I keep going, even when I’m tired, demotivated, or don’t have any good ideas is because I love it. Website visits don’t defeat the resistance. Short-form videos and books don’t defeat the resistance. A genuine, personal love for the work defeats resistance. 

I wrote about this on Thanksgiving, but keeping a daily creative practice is especially meaningful to me on the busy days. It’s harder to find the focus to write a short, helpful blog on days when my schedule is full. But on those days, the fact that I’m doing something I love makes the long-term commitment more palatable. It redeems an otherwise lost day. If I can get even just a few sentences down, I rest easier knowing I did something for my future. I avoid the existential question…“what am I doing with my life?”

There have been 1,926 days since September 22nd, 2020, when I took on my 100-day blogging challenge. This turned into a 465-day streak. From 2022 to 2024, I wrote 200 more blogs. In 2025, I published 365 more, which means of the possible days, I’ve written on 1,030 of them. 53% of days in the last five years have been creative days. More often than not, I’m writing. 

So, on this final day of 2025, I write one more post. I snuck away to a quiet place to write this one. Tomorrow, I won’t publish. I might not publish the next day, either. I’m planning to take a week or so to map out my content calendar for 2026. I’m looking forward to connecting with you on this platforms, and others in the new year. 

Thanks for reading.