I started writing this blog one year ago, with my first post on March 16, 2012. It has been both constraining and liberating. If you looked at the mess I call my office, you would not know, or even suspect, but I am a pretty disciplined person. That is perhaps first key to success if you set out to do a periodic blog. (Self discipline is a key to success in many other areas too.)
Then you need something to write about, but that has not been a problem. My children may tell you that "dad was always lecturing" about something. Many of my posts have been sort of lecturing, I suppose. In my mind, I subtitle this "Forty years of management."
It serves as a substitute for the management book I set out to write a couple of years ago. The problem with a book is that you have to have it all done before you can publish it. Blog posts are nice short little bites. "Any day now" I might collect them and do a book. I will have six copies printed and keep one copy for our home and give one to each of our children.
It has mostly been fun to ramble weekly and I plan to keep on. Fridays will remain as my normal publishing day.
My friend Robert advises that Wednesday morning is the optimum time for email to hit, but his weekly blog arrives as email on Fridays. Now what kind of advice is that, when he doesn't even follow it himself? I always read it because "It wouldn't be Friday without the Follies." Thanks Bob!
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