The creative part of blogging is choosing the subject, writing the piece, and selecting a photo. Everything else is mindless.
- Creative: Choose the topic
- Creative: Write the rough draft of the blog post on Ulysses.
- Mindless: Spell check the post on Grammarly.
- Mindless: Upload the corrected post to WordPress.
- Mindless: Schedule post to publish at 7 am next daily slot.
- Mindless: Select categories.
- Creative: Select or take a photo.
- Mindless: Change photo to medium jpeg size by emailing it to myself.
- Mindless: Upload and title photo.
- Mindless: Add a photo to post
- Mindless: Preview post and print out for final red felt marker edit.
- Mindless: Edit post for the final version.
- Mindless: Publish the future post.
- Mindless: Copy link of the future post.
- Mindless: Go to my Twitter, paste the link, and schedule a tweet for 7:10 am on publication day.
- Mindless: Add hashtags, emojis, and a blurb to the post tweet.
- Mindless: Schedule tweet.
- Mindless: Repeat.
Note: The mindless work only takes about 5 minutes total.