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My 100th Post!

Holy cow! I can hardly believe it myself. We have made it to post #100. I wanted to take this opportunity to take a step back and measure how this blog has grown since post #50 and share how I plan to go about things in the near future. I do this because I do appreciate your feedback in helping to make this blog better, even if I've still not received a single comment on any post. 😅

 Let's do a couple rapid bullets of what I've done since post #50.


  • Readership numbers. My readership has not increased at all, which I'm not going to be disappointed with. I understand that earning your respect is a slow burn earn, so I knew this was going to be a long game.
  • Focus on "premium" content. I did have one post "go viral" and received over 165,000 views on Twitter. Unfortunately, that post was on my other blog, Engedi Artistry, and I've failed miserably at keeping up with that blog. I'm not going to shutter it and actually have plans to increase content over there. It did teach me that any of these posts can "go viral" at any moment, so I have to put out only premium content in every post. (Premium in the sense that it's top notch, but it will still remain free-to-read.)
  • Introduction of new series. I have introduced a few new series of posts, which I am very happy with. I will definitely be increasing their content in the future. As a reminder, those series include...
    • Key Competencies
    • Reader Challenges
    • Adulting 101
I think that about covers the biggest things since post #50. Taking the lessons learned from these 100 posts, here's what I plan on focusing on within the near future.
  • Revamped LinkedIn sharing. If you are connected with me on LinkedIn, I think you'll already know what I'm talking about. The way I used to promote this blog on LinkedIn was by sharing an image and snippet about new content once a week. I don't think this was necessarily a bad idea, but I think it can be better. That said, I'm taking one of my favorite posts per week, creating a graphic design for it, and posting it as a LinkedIn article. I hope this entices more people to come over and read additional weekly content here, and it also helps to foster my graphic design skills.
  • Revamped book reviews. You may have already read this in a post I shared last week. In a nutshell, I just wasn't satisfied with my book review system, so I'm tossing it out. I'm definitely not tossing out book reviews, though. In fact, I plan to increase them. Look forward to those soon!
  • Guest posting. Okay, this one is more of a longshot, but I would love to guest post on another person's blog. Admittedly, I don't know which blog I would do this with, but I keep hearing this being a major benefit in many of the interviews I've listened to. We'll see how this goes.
Blogger doesn't tell me who reads my posts, so I genuinely don't know if I have a single faithful reader (aside from my wife). If you are a regular reader, thank you very much. Seriously. Your support means a lot to me.

Here's to the next 100!
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