What happened to 100DaysToOffload?
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I've been meaning to write about this for a while now. Coincidentially, it's 4th May 2025. Exactly 1 year ago, on 4th May 2024, I started the 100DaysToOffload challenge. The goal was to write 100 posts within an year, the deadline being today.
For the record this is the 17th post, so that means I did't complete even 1/4 of the challenge! This might sound disappointing but this has taught me multiple things. Let's talk about that.
I cannot just force myself to write
I write whenever I feel like writing, I don't need to cater to a large audience, or meet deadlines for someone else. I created this website as an outlet of my thoughts, not to post some forced writings. If I feel like writing 17 posts an year, I'll do that.
The purpose of this challenge is to promote writing. You just have to write, it doesn't have to be good but you need to write. While I do like the idea, that I should write about what comes to my mind, and don't need to make it perfect everytime, because that's not having a personal blog is all about. But still, there are days when I just don't feel like writing, so I just didn't write at all!
The identity of this blog
I'll talk deeper into this in a few days, but I've never felt what exactly I wanted with this blog. I liked to write, (or I liked the idea of writing) and created this blog as an outlet, but I just have so conflicting ideas to write about, trying to write in this blog's context has been counterintuitive - it has made it harder to write. Why's that? Because even I wasn't sure what exactly I wanted from this website. Now I think I'm a little more sure. I'll talk more about this in a later post.
Conclusion
100DaysToOffload is a really cool challenge, and every blogger should try it at least once. But even though I was so excited for it, I feel like this challenge is maybe not for me. The past year has been awesome, I made some cool changes to my website, and as I posted earlier, I finally feel satisfied with its design. About my writings, stay tuned...
This is the last post, post 17 of #100DaysToOffload