Tips for writing a blog diligently

My name is Ito and I am an infrastructure engineer and a member of the web marketing team.

Blogging is one of the ways we are focusing on marketing at Beyond.
At Beyond, we have a blog writing quota, and we try to meet it,
but writing a blog while doing work seems to be difficult for people who don't have a habit of writing blogs
. There are times when something sad like "is not updated" may occur.

I personally have a blog, so I'm
at writing blogs when I find free time

for people who aren't used to it , it's difficult to write blogs. It's difficult.

So, here are some tips for writing blogs diligently.

inventory of what you are doing

"Writing a blog" itself has now become part of our business, but
when we are dealing with inquiries from customers and infrastructure/development work, we
end up giving priority to that. ``Writing a blog'' will fall as a priority.

When this happens, writing a blog becomes difficult, and before you know it,
you forget about the task of writing a blog.

This isn't just limited to blogs, of course, but
the question of how to find time for the second area of ​​the seven habits
is an issue that applies to everyone who works.

*An explanation of the second area of ​​the 7 habits is written a little below.

In such cases, if I don't know what I need to do,

I won't be able to write a blog because my time will be taken up by vague busyness like, ``Oh, I'm so busy.'' .

First of all, if you understand what you do,
you may be able to visualize how much time is being taken up by things that are surprisingly not that important, and you may be able to free up time for blogging.
I wish I could write about the specific method separately.

Also, it's useful even if it's not a blog, so I think you should definitely do it.

Area 2 of the 7 Habits

To give you a very rough explanation of the second area of ​​the 7 habits, it corresponds to something that is highly important but has low urgency, and it is something that would benefit
you (the company) if you do it, but you don't have the time so you put it off. "Let's do this."

For example, something like this.

• go to the gym
• study
• Creating internal manuals

Don't you think that all of these things are important but you don't have time so let's postpone them?

By the way, the other areas are like this.

• Area 1: “Things of high importance and urgency” such as disasters and complaint response
• Third area: ``Things of low importance but high urgency'' such as phone calls and sudden visits
• Area 4: “Things with low importance and urgency” such as killing time and taking a long break

If you are interested, please take a look at the Franklin Planner page.
Third Habit Prioritize important matters (prioritize top priorities) [Prioritize importance, not urgency] | 7 Habits Self Study | Franklin Planner Japan Co., Ltd.

I'll write even if it's just a little bit at a time.

Even if you have time, it will be difficult to devote an hour or two to blogging.
This is fine if you are able to exercise some degree of discretion over your work, but most people are not able to do so.
There may be times when you're writing a blog and things like that, so it's difficult.

So, even if you don't have to spend a lot of time, it's a good idea to write a little at a time.
The way I usually write, I break things up into sections like ``Let's just write one heading.''
If it's just one heading, it shouldn't take that long (depending on the person).

In this way, if you progress even little by little, you'll have a sentence completed before you know it.

Regardless of the form, it is very important to move forward.

It's just a steady process.

If you view tasks in large granularity, they will be too big and will not motivate you, but
by making the tasks smaller and smaller, you will be able to move forward.

I think you'll feel like you can make some progress if you do something like this

• think of a title
• Write the opening sentence
• Write the sentence for heading 1
• Write heading 2
• Write the sentence for heading 3
• fix

Of course, this can be used not only in blogging but also in many other situations at work.

summary

I really want people to realize that writing a blog is surprisingly easy.
Three benefits of output from blogging | Beyond Co., Ltd.

How do you write
about things like this or | Beyond Co., Ltd. also writes the following.

I hope I can reach people who want to write a blog but think it's difficult!