Back in the Blogging Saddle Again

Its been nearly 11 months since I’ve written a blog post here at Vital Journey. My reluctance to blog has been a series of pure unadulterated excuses. Its easy to let the time slip by, living life and frittering away time in so many uncountable and unappreciated ways and not getting to the really stretch goals in your life. Nevertheless, in the end, blogging reluctance has manifested in my head like an ongoing series of mosquito bites. Each one not so bad, but the shear number of irritations has kept me away.

So you might ask, irritated at what? Well I’ve fallen into a trap that I have warned my kids about and my life coaching customers. I’ve compared myself to other friends and twitteriees that blog. You see, I work in IT in Higher Education. Many of my friends on twitter and elsewhere are well-established faculty or long standing members of the Higher Education community. There can wax elegantly about topics of passion. Many write and speak publically as part of their profession. Consider the excellent blog at Gardner Writes as the standard-bearer.

You see, I’m a technical geek that has a science and engineering background. Society tells us we are not good at writing, social skills and other forms of living in the community. I may be a geek, but I’m a full fledged member of the community and those stereotypes just don’t exist in my existence anymore. They are no longer part of my universe.

As I tell my life-coaching customers, don’t be denied by your self limiting beliefs. The more I believe I can’t blog, the more I can’t. I’m no longer going to compare myself to others in the blogging community. As Leo Babauta says, Life’s Enough: Stop Comparing Yourself to Others.

Today is the beginning: I’m making a commitment to tear down my self limiting geek beliefs and begin again. Knowing that with practice, my written expression will improve. There is no reason I can’t become a blogger extraordinaire.

So go identify some of your self limiting beliefs and tear them down. Dream big. You just might achieve something extraordinary.