This week I reflected on my personal project around reading books and sharing what I’m learning via blog posts and audio podcasts. Creating a digest of each book I read has been the focus of the last few weeks. I’m currently reading older books that don’t have a Kindle or other electronic version available, so the digest must be created 100% by hand. The more I create these digests, the more I realize how foundational they are and how important it is to make them high quality. They serve as the foundation for my blog posts and podcasts. They also allow me to review concepts from a book quickly. Creating digests is something new for me, so it’s painful and slow now. But it should become easier as I get more reps.

Right now, I’m reading daily, working on a digest daily, and blogging daily about what I read. These feel like good habits that I can sustain. But I haven’t settled on a recording frequency. Daily doesn’t feel appropriate anymore. I want to focus on quality more, and it’s hard to do that and publish a recording every day.

Today, I decided to test a different approach for a few weeks. I’m a big fan of turning my goals into habits as much as possible, so I’ll try setting a goal and figuring out what frequency is needed to turn it into a habit. Instead of focusing on recording frequency, I’m focusing now on how often I publish a podcast series. For context, I publish a series of five episodes for each book I read. I’m starting by aiming to publish a series every other week, which means I’ll publish roughly two series per month. From there, I’ll test and figure out what recording and editing frequency make sense to make that happen. This will also allow me to improve the quality of the recordings intentionally.

So, to recap, this is what I’m aiming for over the next few weeks:

• Reading  – daily
• Digest creation – daily
• Publishing blog – daily
• Publishing audio podcast series – every two weeks

This feels like a good change. I’m curious to see how it plays out over the next few weeks.