Okay, I’m just embarrassed! This blog started out filled with my very best intentions. I would write about change in a longer format than my weekly eLetter, Thinking for a Change. After all, I’ve been writing the eLetter for 8, can-you-believe-it, years; how hard could a blog be?
Hard, actually and I don’t know why. It’s not like I don’t have things to say, opinions to express, or ideas to promote. It’s not like I don’t think blogging is important to a business strategy in the 21st Century. It’s not like I don’t like to write, work with technology, or impress my Gen X children with my with-it-ness. I just never turned blogging into something I was accountable for.
See, Miriam nags me to give her the copy for Thinking for a Change on a regular and nicely forceful basis. No one nagged me about the blog. (Except for Kim and Jason Kotecki of KimandJason.com who reminded me in the nicest possible ways that they were looking and I wasn’t posting.) Being accountable to an idea, concept or process is nowhere as powerful as being accountable to another human being. For some reason I was never convinced that there were real people, like you, who actually read my blog. Since I couldn’t imagine a reader, I didn’t feel responsible to write. That has changed. Why, you’re asking. Because last January I joined Weight Watchers with my daughter Miriam, have lost 50 lbs, and have learned a few things about accountability.
So, here I am, back with More Change and a promise. I’m typing it, the electronic equivalent of saying it out loud - I, Chris Clarke-Epstein, do commit to post a blog at least twice a month and expect that you’ll call me on my behavior if I don’t. I’ve already decided that the next 5 posts will be about the insights I’ve gained about change while losing weight. (Did you get the clever play on words?) I’ll also be writing about the long list of songs about change that I’ve collected – be prepared to fire up iTunes. I’ve got notes about blogs covering why I buy coffee at Starbucks for the cups more than the coffee and think it’s cheap at that as well as how in the world my grandchildren have gotten so grown-up and how I feel about that.
Comments are welcome, in fact they’re hoped for. I’ve already proven that I need the accountability.
What a nice surprise in my mailbox! Glad to hear you'll be blogging again!
Posted by: Diane | February 16, 2009 at 10:10 AM