Getting back in the saddle

If anyone still has this blog on RSS feed I haven't died. I have got married since I last posted but that's not quite the same!

Its been a long time - about 5 months - since I last posted. And it is not through lack of interest. After only 6 months of blogging I had created a pressure within myself that everything I wrote had to be insightful commentary. The pressure became overwhelming and I froze.

With this in mind that I have been following Jennifer Rice's comments, both on her own blog and at BrandShift, about blog burnout (here and here). I sympathise hugely. I too have been suffering the same fate.

And of course, then the procrastination sets in. The need for perfection, the need to have it all figured out before starting again.

On Monday I met with Johnnie Moore (and the other 173ers) and was reminded of his perspective that sometimes we need to play and see where the world takes you. And it is with this in mind that I am going to start again.

So for a while my contributions are likely to be less structured than before and we will see what themes (if any) develop.  There will likely be more personal stuff - the blogs I enjoy have a good mix of professional and personal. And watch out because my already poor spelling and gramma is just about to get a hole lot wurse!

Hopefully a few of you will stick around to see what emerges.

Comments

[Stephen Castellano]

Congrats on getting married! Glad to see you back. I think a break is important once in a while. I rather read one good blog post a year than 1000 useless ones a day. I try to apply the same standards to myself. While it's hard, there should be no pressure. It's just a blog...