I have come to see the light about the pointless, self-indulgent ‘why I am bad at blogging’ post. (Also known as the ‘Why I have not been blogging lately’ post or the slightly less common the ‘this blog has a new direction’ post.) We have all done them, and this is not kind of another. I am not going to point the previous ones out to you, but you could dig through the archives and find them. I have learned my lesson though, I am done almost done with those. (Chris Brogan hates them too, and he has a ton of great advice if you are a blogger as well. He has provided me a lot of great food for thought lately, and even though I am running directly counter to that advice today, I wanted to bring him to your attention if you are serious about blogging. Reading through his site inspired most of my thinking on this issue.)
All that said, I think I owe the people that read this a quick explanation into my thought process about this blog going into the new year. I have tried to maintain a ‘work’ blog and a separate ‘everything else about my life’ blog. The pressure I put on myself to come up with content for each was such that they kind of ended up canceling each other out. They split my brain. I did not want to put things on the ‘work’ blog that might be controversial, and I did not want to put things on the ‘life’ blog that looked like work, and round and round my thinking went. But what I was left with were two struggling blogs short on my voice. So in drawing up my goals for the upcoming year, which is going to be my best yet, it struck me that I should just combine the two blogs into one.
I own the company, so my work is my life, and my life is my work. And not in the 100 hour work week sense; I mean in the sense that my work is a huge part of who I am. So with that, there will just be one stream of thought pouring from this brain gong forward. It all makes sense in my head, it’s now part of my job to convey it to you.
So, if you start seeing some posts about office supplies and other things technological mixed in with the funny, heartfelt content I am famous for, this is why.
I promise that whatever happens, I will make it fun.
