Finding the write way

"final book progress 5" by rocket ship I’ve been blogging for awhile now, but have been hesitant about publishing a number of posts here on my personal blog.  Originally, I had included many more technology oriented posts, and blogging-related items.  Lately, however, I’ve been more aligned with the “social media” and “personal branding” topics.

I’ve also had two other blogs that I have let slide in to near abandonment, for all the same reasons that almost all other early blogs are neglected.  Too much work, too little time, and too many plans that weren’t thought out all the way.

I’m not announcing any new rejuvenation of these blogs, or of grand plans for them.  The have, however, been on my mind again.  Not in the original way of “if I can just get enough traffic…”, rather I’m now more interested in using them in different ways to express my ideas.  To have different places to write different thoughts and concepts.

With the upcoming trip to SOBCon08, I’ve been again thinking of how best to utilize the platforms that are available to me.  One blog was supposed to be focused on Snowmobiling (Snowmoblog), but is still a great place to talk about all sorts of things outdoors… and who says it has to be winter-oriented all year long?  The other blog grew out of my passion for mobile technology (The Mobile Lifestyle), and would be a great place to talk no so much about gadgets as leveraging mobile technology to enrich life, actually “unwire” more often and so on.

So I’ve got some thought running around in my head.  I’d like to be able to express things that don’t seem to fit on this blog.  I’d like to do more with those sites than simply letting them sit there collecting virtual dust.  Not sure what that’ll be, just kind of talking out loud about them.

Photo credit: rocket ship

I know what my problem is

blogging It’s time.  No, not what you think – I have the time available to do what I need to do, it’s just application of that time to the discipline of writing.  I’m absorbing a *lot* of information lately, but have not made myself sit and write a list of topics, or to take those topics and flesh them out.

I was brainstorming last night on some Happiness posts and realized that when I simply sat down and did it that I could pound out about a dozen without thinking much about it.  As usual, this was another DOH! moment where I got to re-learn a lesson that I’d forgotten.  Typical.  One of these days I’m going to learn it for good.

So today is a discipline day – I’ve got an afternoon meeting and will spend this morning working on more idea generation (continued from last night) and to get a start on some content generation.  Just simply going to sit down, probably at Dunn Bros. Coffee this morning and write without worrying about what it looks like.  Kind of a brute force approach, but that has worked for me in the past.

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More Rambling

You know, I spend a lot of posts just rambling on about nothing. Like this one. It is fun to have technology simply for its own sake. I’m a technologist at heart and simple enjoy playing with ‘stuff’.

Lot’s of fun.

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