It all starts with a step. Whether it is finding a new job, a new client, writing your next blog, or coming up with a 140 characters for Twitter it all starts with a step. You either have to get on line and look for job listings or hit the networking circuit, or put a letter on the page (that’s what is the most difficult for me, that shockingly blank white page).

In my experience, once you get past that first step, it is all so much easier. It is just like when we were kids, don’t dangle a foot in the pool, just jump on it. Yes it is cold. Yes it is shocking. But you are in the pool, and now it doesn’t seem so hard.

I realize that you need to organize your desk drawers, vacuum, take the dog for a walk. These are all very important things that keep you from taking that first step. At least I know they are things I think I need to do when there is a project that is daunting. I find if I just jump in with both feet I am through before I know it.

I know we all think that we have no boundaries and have no time, but I actually find that as long as I don’t procrastinate, I have all the time I need. It is when I start to stall and delay that the day goes on forever, because I never started what I needed to finish. I never looked for the client, I never wrote the blog, I never came up with a mere 140 characters to amaze and amuse my followers (however few of them there might be).

I made a mid-year resolution (yes a mid-year) to be better about blogging, I have been sporadic so far this year and I pledge to be better. So start to check back often to see what topic I have picked, I will be entertaining and enlightening. At least it’s a step.