I’ve Finished the Medium 90 Day Challenge

We all need a strategy if we‘re going to keep fighting

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When I first found Medium in late May of this year, I honestly thought it was a suckers game.

What first brought me here was a story written by an old acquaintance that I was reading as a kindness.
He’d had big plans of success on the platform, plans that had fizzled into predictable nothing. Yet despite his failings, the platform itself looked enticing to me.

I liked the design, and really liked how easy it was to format a post to make it look good and easy to read. No need to fuss around with templates and get frustrated when that shade of pink you like looks red on the iPad version.

So I signed up for the Partner Program myself and decided to shoot for success the same way that he’d tried to.

But what does success look like?

I had no idea, but I’d found a writer that had started a few months before me.

Gillian Sisley had said in one of her earlier stories that she had set a goal for herself. Her goal looked like this —

Within 90 days she would:

1. Write every single day
2. Earn at least one ‘Top Writer’ badge