I’ve been blogging since 2008 – usually once a week. Sometimes less. My tracking data suggest that I have a small, loyal, unsolicited following. As such one could conclude that there's no direct, or obvious, ROI to this blog, and that it's a waste of time.
Q: so what’s the point if my blog is more like a personal diary than a published work?
A: practice, not popularity, makes the master.
On one of my dog-walking routes I pass by an old Chinese woman who does her Tai Chi routine alone and in silence every morning. No one greets her, interrupts her, or tells her that she’s doing great. She’s a study of meditation in motion. Incredibly graceful, focused and precise.
A master immersed in the moment.
I confuse many of the people I work with by appearing to have a good solid (creative) answer for every communications problem that they bring to me to sort out.
My guess is that they’ll know much more than I do now . . . if they stick with it for 35 more years.
Some will.
Most won't.
Blogging is one of the mental exercises that I continue to use to hone my communication skills.
Because it forces me to think clearly and succinctly, it affects everything else that I do.
Masters inspire others to become masters themselves.
To follow their hearts down a new, unknown path.