I started this blog approximately 22 months ago with lofty intentions, then proceeded to write five posts over the next three months before abandoning it until yesterday. I figure it’s time for a bit of an update.

When I started, I was 45 days into my “sabbatical” – I had quit my job and was traveling and generally decompressing. I wrote the fifth post on the eve of a month-long ski trip during which I launched a consulting business. It started with just a couple of freelance projects to offset the cost of my season pass, then turned into a way to extend my travels before going back to a corporate job. Several months in, I started to realize that it could be my full-time job.

That said, I can’t entirely blame my blog flakiness on launching and growing a business. I actually maintained a blog fairly consistently from 2008 to 2013, despite work and life being just as crazy (if not more so) as they are now. Back when I started that blog, I really didn’t have any expectations – tons of people were blogging, but no one was really Blogging. There wasn’t a “right” way to do it, no books or classes or pressure, and I was blogging for fun, about whatever was interesting to me in the moment. With this new blog, it felt like there were things I was “supposed” to write about or do, and that made it a chore…and so I stopped.

The funny thing is, I love writing (always have). And I love going back and reading my old blog – it’s such an amazing snapshot of my life at that time, and somehow far more fun than paging through old journals. I totally wish I’d written more. And so with that in mind, I’m committing to making blogging a habit again by posting daily for the next 30 days, without a thought to monetization or followers or the “right” way to blog – I’m back to doing it just for fun.