Happy New Year! I am a sucker for new beginnings and fresh starts. You can see where this is going, right?
I have not written anything here since August. While it's easy to stop writing, my ideas on posts keep percolating. A curse I suppose.
So why did I stop? I could blame the standard excuse of not enough time or dedicating more time to work off an extra ten pounds, but I think really it was writer's block. Once I discovered more folks that were reading my stuff, the harder it was for me to write and balance my consulting career. Weird, huh.
Blogging with frequency has been rewarding to me personally and professionally. In engineering and in writing one can constantly tweak a memo or a design, but "pressing print" is therapeutic. Putting a period to an idea is powerful.
I thought about putting a period today on this blog and retiring this blog. However, it really seems like I would be admitting defeat to my own writers block.
So, here is my public 90 day challenge to myself to see if I can break through this wall. If I fail, the blog dies.
Write at least one post a week.
Everything is fair game. With a name like watercrunch I always felt like I needed to talk about water scarcity issues especially here in the Southeast. While interesting, it's sometimes a bit constraining. All of life's goodness is now fair game! Yes, this means not all posts will be about water.
I am turning off blog comments. I am going to violating the cardinal rule one of any blog which is try to generate comments and discussion. Forget this. I will focus on my writing. I really hate getting spam comments or reading the occasional lunatic commenters. This does nothing for me.
Consume less media. Have you seen Goodnight ipad? This is what my house has become. Funny & sad.
So there it is. Yikes, now it is time to publish this post.
