The Very First Blogging Tips Post I Ever Wrote (and what it’s still teaching me)

Last updated on 8 May 2026

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I’m about to dob myself in.

You might know me for blogging tips. Maybe you follow along on Instagram, here on the blog, maybe you’re inside The Blogging Room, or we’ve jumped on a coaching call at some point. And I’d like to think I know what I’m talking about when it comes to this stuff.

I was poking around my blog the other day – just one of those slightly-procrastinating-but-calling-it-research kind of afternoons – and I found the very first blogging tips post that I have ever shared.

It went live on 12 February 2015.

Eleven years ago (at the writing of this post in early 2026).

I had been blogging for about 6 years by the time I wrote that blog post (you can actually read it here), and the opening line of that blog post is all about making a discovery a few years prior (so now we’re talking about 2012), all about scheduling blog posts.

I know. Wild stuff. Truly radical. 🙈

It almost feels funny to write about it now because, of course, you can schedule blog posts. It’s just… a thing that you can do and I do it all the time. This blog post you’re reading was scheduled!

But back in 2015, it was something I wanted to share. It was a discovery I had had in my blogging life, and I was just thinking about writing blogging tips around this time, so it was one of the first things I thought to share.

And even now I still think it’s a good topic to be tackling.

Here’s the main thing I keep coming back to today, though: That post wasn’t strategically planned. It wasn’t part of a content calendar or a carefully mapped-out content pillar. There was no keyword research, no “what does my audience need right now” brainstorm session.

It was just: I found this thing, it changed how I work, maybe it’ll help you too.

And that’s still – genuinely, honestly – one of the best starting points there is when you’re stuck on blog post ideas.

Your own life. Your own recent discoveries. The thing you figured out last week that made you go “oh, wait. Why didn’t I know about this sooner?”

We can get really stuck in our heads about blog post ideas.

We think we need to be ahead of the trend, or covering something nobody’s written about before, or bringing some completely fresh angle. And sometimes, yes, that’s great. But a lot of the time? The most useful posts come from the most ordinary places.

Something you tried that worked. Something that didn’t work and why. A tool you started using that genuinely made your life easier. A mindset shift that happened almost without you noticing – until one day you realised you weren’t doing that panicked Sunday night scramble anymore because you’d started scheduling your posts in advance.

I don’t think that you need a fancy angle, just noticed something worth sharing.

The fact that my very first blogging tips post is still sitting on my blog – still basically the same post it was eleven years ago, bones and all, with a few tweaks over the years, sure – tells me that when you write from your own genuine experience, it tends to hold up. Not because you got everything perfect, but because the truth of it is real.

And real stuff sticks around like that.

So if you’re sitting there right now, staring at a blank document, wondering what on earth you should write about next, have a look at your own life. What have you discovered lately? What’s something you figured out recently in your blog niche, your work, your day-to-day, that made things even a little bit easier or clearer?

Could that be your next post? (Not rhetorical, by the way. I genuinely want to know. 🎉)