3 creativity coaching tips for finishing your blog post, as a multi creative entrepreneur
Blog posts are a super tool for small businesses, as this is where you can practice truly setting yourself apart as a business and brand. You can show your knowledge, points of view and values in your own voice. Plus it’s great for SEO.
This blog post, and all other Creators Process blog posts are free from AI, and written by me. I share my opinions, knowledge, experience and typos with you gladly.
Most of my creativity coaching clients over the last 10 years, have either been solopreneurs, small business owners, or have been working towards starting a small business, using their creative skills and interests. Ideas are plentiful, but finishing jobs that will help the business, is often a challenge.
Blogging is such a great tool for a small business, especially for solopreneurs, and yes, people are reading (or at least scanning) blogs in 2025.
We get information from blogs all the time. When you Google to learn something, it’ll often be someone’s blog you land on. If the information is really useful, we might even sign up to their newsletter, or follow them on social.
But writing blog posts is time consuming, and not a quick fix like posting on Insta. Personally I’m a slow writer, and it takes me days to write a post, like this one you’re reading now, so I have tried different ways to get it done.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with being slow at anything, let me make that super duper clear. In this fast world, being slow at something is almost a rebellious act, so we like that. This post is not about being slow, but about finishing your writing.
You can also use the tips for writing your blog post, or any other form of long content writing.
3 creativity coaching tips for finishing your blog post (or any writing)
One of the perks of being a kaizen-muse creativity coach, apart from working with some seriously kind, funny, and mega creative ladies, is that I have a bunch of tools to help me with my own creative writing, beginner photographer journey, and my other creative endeavors.
It’s rather handy :)
That is a roundabout way for me to say the 3 tips I’m about to share here are, in fact, creativity coaching tips, and they work on many different types of creatives, doing many different types of nice creative work.
Tip 1: Give the kaizen-small-step approach a go.
A kaizen approach to writing a blog post is thinking in small steps. Thinking in small steps can look many ways, so I have come up with a couple of examples.
E.g. a small step to take, when trying to write a blog post, could be to set yourself a word count goal.
Maybe you aim at writing 20 words a day, or 50 words.
The most important thing to know about using small steps efficiently, is the step has to be really, really small. Much smaller than you think!
Frankly, the step has to be so tiny, you think it’s a bit ridiculous and pointless.
That’s when you know you’re getting the size right.
If you feel any resistance still, make the step smaller yet.
Setting yourself a goal of writing 1000 word blog post in one sitting, or a whole blog post in one go, is just too much to expect.
The point of setting yourself a tiny goal step is to get started, over and over. If you find yourself still not doing the work with your small step, it’s not small enough.
Another way to use a small step approach to writing, is setting a timer.
You can make a deal with yourself to write for 3 minutes. Maybe just 1,5 minute, or maybe 10 minutes is a small step for you.
When the time is up, you’ve done your days writing.
You can choose to continue writing, but you don’t have to, and that’s key.
This can be a super effective trick for the brain, as it gives clear structure to when the “scary-new-thing” ends.
Even though writing a blog post, a book, or writing any piece of content is not scary, the amygdala in our fight/flight/freeze brain still reacts when we attempt doing anything new. Even writing a blog post sets the alarm bells off, and this is when you start to feel resistance.
It’s not you doing anything wrong, it’s biology and completely natural.
Using tiny steps are effective because they are non-threatening, and therefore bypass the amygdala to front cortex, which is your creative thinking brain. Cool, eh?
Again, only of the steps are small enough.
Small step recap:
Set a word count goal 10 - 60
Set a timer for 1 - 5 minutes
Using tiny steps to getting started with writing continuously, will eventually mean you finish your blog post.
Tip 2: Find gentle accountability
The second creativity coaching tip for finishing your blog post, or just keep writing, is to find yourself some gentle accountability.
Yes, that can be creativity coaching with someone like me, but it doesn’t have to be a creative coach.
You can join a writing group, or even make a simple arrangement with a friend or partner.
Here’s another accountability partner: yourself!
This is one of my favorite tips, actually, to have a date with yourself, e.g. you set a specific time in your week, where you sit with your writing.
This time is completely non-negotiable.
Just like you keep an appointment you have with your dentist, even if you don’t want to go, this time with yourself is the same. You keep the appointment, no matter what else is going on.
The way I like to approach this time, and I recommend you try it too, is that it doesn’t matter what I produce during this special time. It’s not about productivity, but about being there for myself and my creativity.
I sometimes light candles, not always, but I like being cozy and warm.
Plot 15 minutes, to an hour, into your week, and make it absolutely non-negotiable. The world, kids, partner, tidying up can wait, just be with yourself and your writing, and see what happens.
If you do hours of writing during the week, great, but you still keep that date with yourself. Every week.
This is a good tip for building a weekly creative habit, btw, in small steps
Tip 3 for finishing your blog post, is to lower your expectations of it being the best ever!
In my creative coaching, I work with lowering expectations as a creative tool, but it is also my deep belief that imperfection is not a compromise, but proof of human-centered creativity.
In this AI time, you writing your own blog post is the brave, creating thing to do, and if there are typos and mistakes, great! It shows you’re making an effort, you’re trying, you’re doing the work, you’re practicing.
You don’t have to write the best blog post ever. It doesn’t even has to be the up to your personal standard to bring traffic to your website and tick some SEO boxes.
I’m not saying you have to write the worst blog post you can produce, but if your intention is to make it useful for somebody, I bet that someone will find it useful. Even if you don’t think it’ll win blog post of the year (is there even such an award?).
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