Why no blog??

Recently I got ‘the look’ from a friend & colleague @franhusson, patient leader extraordinaire.

“I looked at your blog the other day,” she said.  “There’s nothing new.”  The look came with a pause of significance.

Sheepishly, I could only agree.  I simply haven’t been blogging.

I have had some great excuses about why I haven’t been able to blog.  Lots in fact.  I nearly indulged and listed them here.

But perhaps a better question is ‘why is blogging so hard?’

On one level it isn’t of course.  Anyone can do it.  It needs only minutes to slap a few words together and fewer to post them online.

On the other hand, blogging, like anything else that is supposed to be a routine, the key is discipline.

We often, as a society denigrate the routine.  It’s ‘just’ routine, we say.  It ‘simply’ must be done. 

If it was that simple, I’d be doing it.

And if we all ‘just’ ‘simply’ routinely put more vegetables and less chocolate in our mouths weight watchers wouldn’t exist.

I think they’re safe for now.

So why is routine hard?

For me, it’s because it’s relentless.  Day in, day out.  Week in, week out.

Seriously, even thinking about it makes me want to run around naked painted with ice cream in a cat shelter.

Anything but the daily grind, the tyranny of the predictable, the handcuffs of the ‘must do’.

So, Fran, I’m publishing this – it’s a blog, and maybe it’ll get me back on track…