Out Of The Void Of A Daily Blog & Speaking This Summer Blog

Back when I started my blog in the beginning of 2006 I made a commitment to write a blog every business day as I believe there is nothing worse than arriving at someone’s blog and seeing that their last post was 18 months ago.

At the same time, not having a lot of writing experience, knowing that I may not be able to maintain the commitment, I wrote every working business day no matter what. Some of it was garbage but there were a few gems along the way; one gem is that I found my voice and was able to write my first book.

“There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.” – Heinz R. Pagels

I’m revisiting my daily blogging commitment again. Given there are about 250 working days per year and I’ve posted over 2200 blogs over the past 6 1/2 years, I believe I have maintained my original commitment.

“Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void” – William James

I’ve written one of these kinds of blogging reduction blogs in the past but “no matter how hard I try, they pull me back in.” I suppose I have created quite the habit and one could say that it is a functional habit conditioned by the ideas of Stephen Pressfield who wrote The Legend of Bagger Vance.

However, my blogging commitment has been at the cost of consciousness, energy and time for other projects.

So for the coming months of June, July and August I am going to reduce my daily blogging commitment to blogging once a week minimum. I am also going to be doing more delegation of the blogging work by asking Deanne McAndrews, Leading Advisor’s Customer Service Virtual Assistant to create Blogs by editing / depersonalizing my client e-mail correspondence that is about financial advisor personal and professional development.

“It is not known precisely where angels dwell — whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God’s pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.” – Voltaire

Who knows, you could see five blogs per week.

Who knows, this blog could become June’s e-newsletter.

I’m writing this blog on Tuesday, May 28th on an Air Canada flight from Vancouver to Philadelphia via Toronto to present the One Page Business Plan on May 31st at Lincoln Investment’s 2012 National Advisor Summit.

This will be my last speaking presentation until September and I want to create Buffer Days for the following in the absence of blogging and speaking while still being very busy with my clients on Focus Days and still having plenty of Free Days to enjoy the summer on Vancouver Island.

• Overhaul my information management system
• Oversee the installation of a new CRM system
• Attract one-on-one coaching, workshops and speaking referrals
• Market one-on-one coaching, workshops and speaking in the USA
• Volunteer for Advocis and NAIFA
• Volunteer for Compassion
• Attract a publisher for my new book
• Oversee the updates to my FaceBook site
• Start Vlogging for client assignments and public posts
• Read and integrate The Psychology Of Selling into our coaching practice

“Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.” – Paul Klee