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A few weeks ago I wrote about the unexpected aspects of blogging. At that point, I was talking about the challenge of seeing myself as a writer, and the benefit of how blogging shifts and clarifies my thinking.

Where is the time to implement all these new ideas?
The practice of writing has given me insight into places in my business practices that aren’t as clear as they should be. It has been a catalyst for strategic re-evaluation. All this clarity is great, but how am I going to find the time in the day to implement this new found clarity. It’s like coming home from a powerful workshop or conference bursting with inspiration only to be greeted with the pile up of email, voice and snail mail (not to mention what can happen to the house).

I need to find a way to structure space. I can’t keep cramming new things into an already full space, whether it be physical, emotional, intellectual, or simply the hours in a day.

What will I stop, start, and continue?
How will I decide?
How will I gain support for those decisions from those around me

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I thought about blogging for quite a while.

But I’m not a writer.

The first big barrier to get over was the voice of the evil English teacher in college. Mind you I do not remember the person’s name, or even if it was a man or woman. What I do remember is sitting in class during the second week after turning in our first assignment. The professor handed me the paper with a big red C- on it and said something in a loud voice in front of the whole class about my having absolutely no talent for writing and was lucky to have any credit for the assignment at all. I walked out, dropped the class, and avoided writing for almost 20 years until I went to graduate school. Avoiding writing wasn’t even necessarily conscious, it was like touching a hot stove and just learning not to do that again.

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