"A journey beginning with a single step"

Facebook,Twitter, Linked In...done. Oh and you need to start a blog. A Blog? You expect me to write stuff?

OK. So it shouldn’t be too difficult. After all everyone writes things. Emails, letters, notes, shopping lists. Even text messages. And if you don’t write much now, you will have in the past with all that school work. Some of us have written even more stuff – books, games, scripts. So why should the idea of writing a blog be so daunting?

The problem stems from what Benjamin Franklin described as “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” This puts pressure on the blogger. What will make your blog worth reading? How do you make the piece entertaining, informative, balanced, passionate and interesting?

 Most people believe the first step is to write from what you know. Think about things you’ve done, places you’ve been, people you’ve met. Really there is a step before that. The first step is deciding to make that leap into the unknown and put words onto paper (or computer).  

The idea of a first step into the unknown got me thinking. Everyone remembers the  “This is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” Speech by Neil Armstrong, but I found another apt first step quote by Chauncey Depew - “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”

Having no idea who Chauncey Depew was, I decided to look him up. The man had a number of other interesting quotes attributed to him such as “Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.” -
Chauncey Depew.

So here I am taking my first step into blogging. I am taking my one small step and will be exposing my ideas and, possibly, speaking my mind as an independent thinker. In return, dear reader, please be kind.

And if you like this post please share it.