My first post was all about how I went from a social net­work­ing naysayer to an all-in, Face­book­ing Twit of a Blog­ger.  Now that I am very sea­soned, with a grand total of 8 posts, I think I am qual­i­fied to give just one tip.  So here it is, a tip from a begin­ning blogger…

How to Over­come the Fear That You Have Noth­ing of Value to Say

When I con­sid­ered start­ing my blog, my biggest hes­i­ta­tion was the dif­fi­culty of com­ing up with some­thing of value to write about each and every week.  What in the heck could I have to say that would mat­ter to people? 

I decided to sit down and write out a list of pos­si­ble top­ics to get me started.  In my first hour of doing this, I came up with 57 top­ics.  Then I asked two of my team mem­bers to help me add to the list.  I asked them to help me rec­ol­lect some of the things that I have repeated often, trained oth­ers on, strug­gled with and cel­e­brated.  Within 30 min­utes my list climbed to 97 topics. 

This really helped me to jump into blog­ging.  No more fear of hav­ing to sit there and con­trive some­thing insight­ful and valu­able to say each and every week.  I had a list of top­ics to keep me busy for a year! 

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