Set Your Blog Posts to Publish Before You Write Them
If you’re struggling with accountability, this 15-minute prep work will put you on the right track to productivity.
Demanding ourselves to work more after a workday is always challenging. If you’re anything like me, you eat something, take a shower, and dive into YouTube or Netflix for the remainder of the evening. And the following day, we’ll be mad at ourselves for our lack of accountability.
We all heard by now that if you give your goals actual deadlines with real consequences, you are more likely to accomplish them. In this article, I want to share how I took this idea and used it to transform my publishing strategy.
Let’s dive right in!
I Scheduled All of My Posts Until Dec. 2021
And when I say schedule, I don’t mean put it up in a lovely little calendar to remind me. I mean mechanically schedule. Like, go out into the world automatically when the time comes kind of schedule.
I use Ghost for my blog, and I realized that I could schedule all of my posts upfront. It took around 15 minutes to schedule up to December 2021.
Here’s what it looks like:
