Hello World. It’s me again.

Those who read, call it blogging. Those who write, call it many things… Self-expression; Creation; Influence; Reflection; and the list goes on…

Why I Started. Why I Stopped.
I started blogging over a decade ago… I authored a few blogs, deleted them, contributed to a few more, until I stopped sometime in 2008 when I “got busy”.

Since then, I’ve stifled a desire to write and publish consistently. “I have too many things to do… too many ideas to pursue… too many things to build… to waste time on blogging.”

It wasn’t really about time, or the lack of…
And yet, I found time to enrol myself in a professional coaching program; I found time to learn; I found time to sharpen my skills. All these contributed to (my) growth, while blogging would have been a distraction… at least that’s what I thought.

Well, I’ve read many times (and I’ve even preached this point) — that blogging actually contributes to your personal, professional and (in the case of corporate blogging) business growth more that you can imagine. Yeah, yeah, yeah… I knew. But I didn’t truly believe. I was “too busy” to want to believe it.

A Change of Mind
That paradigm shifted, when I read Mark Suster’s post: Finding a New Medium

Ultimately you can only be a consistent long-term blogger if you love the creative process of writing or more broadly the process of creating.

That was when it all made sense. I love creating. And I used to think that the more time I spent writing and speaking, the less time I have for creating. And I was wrong.

So… Hello again, world.