Why “lessons learned” is better than just “lessons” - or how I edit my writing…

On the first day of this year I wrote about my best nine IG photos. I really liked how the photos turned out so I decided to report on them and describe them briefly on this blog… and when I wrote and published the post I was happy that I’ve done just that… but I wasn’t quite happy how it turned out. Now I know why:

Reporting on facts is boring… reporting on what we’ve learned from these facts is much more valuable!

When I re-read the post I realized what was missing - my personal take on what happened - my conclusions. Things I’ve learned from these photos.

After all why am I writing stuff on this blog? Because I want to grow!

I want to write more - to become a better person - and hopefully share some of these learnings with you!

Two months ago I wrote about new habits I wanted to form… and I think I did. One of them was writing on this blog daily. Later I revised this goal to writing at least 5 blog posts a week (as in: weekday daily - I wanted to have an option to have a weekend off) and I mostly succeeded.

If you look at the blog archive, you’ll see I’ve been blogging a lot more than before. Almost daily.

Now here comes the big why - why I want to blog more frequently?

1. I want to have a way to journal out in the public and be able to easily (via an internet link) get back to these learnings or point others to them.
2. Seth Godin thinks it’s good for me and I agree with him :-)
3. I want to become a better writer. Now that I’ve published my new 10 Steps to Ultimate Productivity book… and more books to come.

That’s why I need to focus on “learnings” when I blog over here

If what I post here is to serve me in the future and is to give value to others, I need to focus on what I’ve learned from things and how they impacted me. Not just on stating the facts. After all, I’m not a journalist, I’m a personal and team development guy. That’s what I’m trying to do here:

To help you, your team and myself become a better version of ourselves.

That’s the big why. That’s the reason I’ll write more in 2019.

Hope you’ll join me for the ride, give me feedback and help me spread the learnings from here. Thank you!