I just have to get back to blogging. I think that I have some good things to say and that day in and day out my experiences will be valuable to readers if they happen upon them. Now having said that blogging is like the cosmic band-wagon. Everyone jumps on but few people can stay on. I mean look at my blog. I haven’t written for months and possibly years. Ugh! So as my wife likes to say… “You need to have a plan.” and I need to consider how I can make daily blogging successful and interesting. What I mean by successful is that I have to be able to sustain the activity over a prolonged period of time. So many of us have good intentions but none of us manage to hold on to them through the entire course of building an interesting blogosphere.

So in my plan I have to identify the time I’m most likely to be successful with writing a blog. I used to believe that writing at night would in fact be the best time but as you can see that’s not been the case. I think before my day gets busy I need to write about the things that were worthy of comment from yesterday. So that is the first piece of the plan.

* Blog in the morning.

The next piece of the plan is to understand how often I can blog and still keep things interesting. So for now I’ll blog daily except on the weekends and see how that goes. Never know I might even blog on the weekends. So the next piece is to blog 5 days a week and see if I can maintain momentum.

* Blog daily.

But what do you write about? I’m a small business owner, software engineer (yes in the true sense), network engineer (who knew?), husband and father. But wait. I believe I have perhaps missed the most important thing especially given our current economy. I am a consumer. I’m also (thanks to my wife) an informed consumer. I like to do the work before I spend the buck. So I’ll write about being a small business owner, engineer, husband and father and flavor it all with the insight of a consumer when it fits and is interesting. But why write a consumer? Why not? It’s the most powerful job in the world. CEO’s don’t have the power of consumers. Generals don’t have the power of consumers not even president’s as President Obama is about to learn have the power of consumers. Consumers can cripple city’s, states, countries and as we are seeing write now they can cripple worlds. So I’ll flavor all of my comments with the perspective of a wary consumer in difficult times.

* Write from a consumers perspective.

I think I have to have a purpose though. Why blog at all? Just to entertain? To make money (ha!)? To vent frustrations? What makes a good blog and how do you avoid pitfalls of tedious blogs? Why write at all? Well I think I’d have to say because I’ll enjoy it. That’s got to be a great reason all by itself so why search for more?

* Write daily and share my experiences because I enjoy it and for no other reason at least yet.

Well there’s my plan. Let’s see how it goes and I obviously reserve the right to change it when and how I see fit. But for now at least… I’m happy having a plan that is simple and thought out with a reasonable amount of time and consideration.

Thanks!