A little more than a year ago I wrote a blog post entitled “What happened? I think I blacked out…” which sparked a self-imposed challenge to write more frequently for this blog. Well it lasted for a little over a month and led to a flurry of new articles, some more people reading and commenting, an incredible amount of time devoted to the blog, and a completely unsustainable routine. The result since early September 2010? No posts.
Looking back it is hard to determine exactly when the wheels came off the axles. I don’t remember making a conscious decision to stop posting. Our lives are filled with different internal coaches that encourage us in fluctuating volumes and intensity to do certain things. The need to blog coach was replaced with decrees to “focus more on your day job”, “be more of a family man” or “go to the gym more”. And then silence.
Not that the absence of my blog posts from the world created any great disruption to the natural order of things. Quite the contrary. The world went humming along just the same. But, the question that looms for me is: why did I start this process of blogging in the first place? I got into blogging because I like to write, I have some good ideas to share with the world, and it helps me to get better at the things I do. Just as the tag line of the blog’s title states – getting better at what we do, bit by bit. All of those motivations are still here both underneath and rising back to the surface.
So here’s to getting back on track with some good posts, cool ideas, and a return to the essence of why I started this blog in the first place. I’m not going to make any promises to post with a certain frequency just going to write and throw stuff up here that I find interesting and hopefully others may too.
