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I’m embarrassed to look at my last posting date. Time and again I told myself to pull it together and start blogging again. It’s good for the soul, good for the mind, and the fact is I actually enjoyed it when I was doing it regularly. It’s when I started to slip that the guilt took over, the sense of carrying a big burden got the best of me and I figured if I just stopped the little nagging voices inside would simply go away. 

My posts started dwindling when I took a new job, exactly 366 days ago today. My excuse was that I was mentally tired from the new gig. My brain hurt. I felt my blog was just one more contributor to the stress and weight of it all. And, the more industry blogs I began reading and the more I delved into social media and all its players, the more inadequate I felt. I had no real following, I wasn’t asked to speak to big crowds, and I’ll never make the Top 100 blog list. I started my blog when I was unemployed to give me a writing outlet and help keep me sane.  It did all that, but now what?

What I should have realized is that if I had kept writing regularly it could have been a great source of release, and I probably could have shared my daily learnings in a way that people might actually enjoy.  That’s water under the bridge. But, I’m here to say: I’m back.  I won’t guarantee I’m back for good or even back on a super regular basis, but I’m going to try hard and make a true effort.

I’ll admit I was inspired earlier this week when reading about HARO Founder Peter Shankman finishing an Ironman triathlon he’s been training for since April. As a follower of his on Twitter and a reader of his blog, it was exciting stuff to read about his journey up to the race and the race day journey itself. In his post-race post he offered lessons he learned from that race that any of us could apply to our lives. I took note of those lessons and decided it was time to get the motivation going again.

One tip Shankman offered was to get up a half an hour earlier than you need to, every day. He says it will change your life. By starting your day not stressed or rushed, the rest of the day just seems a bit easier. Tomorrow I put this into practice.

With any good training regimen you need to build steadily but not rapidly, so that’s what my plan is with my life and this blog. Tomorrow the alarm goes off earlier and tomorrow I’ll think about what I’ll post on my blog for the day.

I’m restarting my journey. I hope you’ll join me.

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