30 days ago, I signed up for Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole's cohort-based course, Ship 30 for 30.

In that time, I wrote & published 30 Atomic Essays, learned the fundamentals of Digital Writing, made friends, and started gaining clarity over what my niche might be, what topics I enjoy the most sharing and writing. It has been a very rewarding (and challenging) journey, and I am more excited than ever to keep writing online. And I will definitely continue this.

Here are the 3 biggest things writing & publishing consistently every day for 30 days taught me:

1. Building consistent habit 🔁

When I started off with this course I was not really sure if I'll be able to ship for all 30 days for various reasons, how can I find time to write eveyday 🤯 and how can I publish my thoughts publicly 🙈.

It was hard in initial days but gradually it became easier and I was able to build this consistent habit of writing on the same time everyday. Even my kids started asking me if I had done my writing for today 😂. I say it as power of building habit 💪.

2. Idea generation 💡

I learned how to think about generating ideas everyday. I started noting down all the topics on a google docs whenever something new struck on my mind or something that I always wanted to share of what I learnt but never got to do it( but I was able to do it now with these short atomic essays)

So this helped me with not sitting with a blank page staring for hours to think what I'll be writing about. I always started writing with an idea in mind 😎(no more staring at the screen 😊

3. Just press the publish button 🙌

In my past, I would rewrite and adjust anything that I would write, you know write being perfectionist 👌

Initial few days was still the same but gradually withing 3 to 5 days I lost the habit of making it look perfect and hitting the publish button was less scary than when I started off.

Out of all of these I enjoyed the entire process.

Shout out to Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole for building this amazing course. And a huge thank you to Vernon for inspiring me to take up this course 😇

If you have been thinking about getting started writing online too, let me know. I'm happy to share more about the experience and what I learned.