What happened? Where did all your content go? What is going on here?
If these questions came to mind the past few days after to coming to my blog, hopefully this post will explain.
I was getting bored with my blog, the inspiration was no longer there, the flame was dying. My last couple of posts were really me just trying to put something up.
I thought about it for a long time and realized that I had outgrown the blog. I was ready for a new phase.
The first blog I launched in October 2005 was deleted on 1/23/08, not by my choice, but by a weird twist of reality. I missed it for a long time. There were a few posts that I considered some really good writing, but at the same time it was an opportunity to launch a new blog for phase 2 of my life.
Phase 1 and therefore blog #1 focused on my exploration of what I wanted in my life, what pushed my buttons, and what my core values were. It was the various experiences and feelings that pushed me to start my own company. But I was very afraid of what I was getting myself into, and I explored those feelings often as well. At the time it was deleted I had entered into a new phase of this journey. I was taking myself more seriously and believed in what I was building but needed to find a direction and therefore was seeking guidance.
Phase 2/blog 2 really explored the many different places I received guidance and the directions I was going. Oftentimes I was posting a pep talk that I was giving to myself or exploring my authoritative voice.
Once I realized that I was losing inspiration to keep posting and decided I needed a fresh start I made the decision to delete my blog. Before I did so I went through all of the posts and did not find anything that I wanted to keep.
If you think about a journey, you keep moving forward, you do not hold on to the past. You learn from your past, but it is the past. I had no reason to hold on to the content of my last phase and I am ready to start this new phase.
So what will phase 3, or what I am calling part 3, bring? Well like all journeys, I can only guess, but I really won't know until we travel the path. I find that I want to explore the world around me more as opposed to exploring the world inside of me. There are so many great ideas and stories and people in the world, and I want to share that world on my blog. I am also exploring what it takes to be a great leader and a catalyst of valuable change.
I am sure I will continue to blog about my family, as they are the center of my world. In fact I have considered producing a podcast of the conversations I have with my teenage son about the gaming industry.
I am anxious to see where inspiration finds me and what we will get to learn on this new journey. The journey that has led me to new places, new experiences, new ideas, and new opportunities. A journey that has always been in control while I have just been along for the ride.
“Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.”
