When you start doing something, there are milestones you expect. Evidence of progress that is predictable: A particular number of views, or followers, or posts. For instance, I’m approaching my 200th post. There’s nothing particularly surprising about that. You just write the first post, and then, keep going.
In addition to that kind of milestone, you have the kind of milestone you weren’t looking for until you run into it along the way. Things like the callous on my big toe. I didn’t think about it before I started dancing, but there it is. Proof I was there. A nice souvenir.
I’m talking about the milestones that come with their own aha moment and announce themselves when you get there.
Today’s milestone?
My readers started talking to each other.
Yeah. In the comments on my blog. There are people… and they’re talking to each other.
Oh!
Didn’t know I was looking for that.
In hindsight, it seems obvious that it would happen eventually. I mean, I have a blog. It has a theme (Specifically: Pretending this blog has a theme.) It makes sense that the people who read it would have enough in common that they’d start talking eventually.
Surprise!
It’s like the first time you run into someone who looks just exactly like your character running around on the street.
So… what are the milestones that took you by surprise? What accomplishments did you reach without knowing they were there?
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