My first blog - getting started
carynvanstone June 18th, 2007
How exciting is this!! Joining the blog world!
The last few days have really highlighted to me how easy it is to fall victim to the very things that we, as consultants, often have to help others to face - like the prospect of just getting started on something… and learning as we go.
As someone who works from a complexity/emergence view of change I find myself advocating to leaders and other consultants that they have to learn through consciously aware, reflective experimentation. Yet it was over two years ago that Euan Semple first introduced me to blogging and the wiki-world of social networking, but I didn’t get into it.
I then tried again a few months ago, having met Esko Kilpi at a Social Networking Event with Nokia in Finland … and again… did nothing.
Finally, a good friend Richard Cussons and my brother Jamie Vanstone (FIRST4TECH) took me to task - and get me started. Now, having started, I realise that much of my reluctance to start is about my own desire to appear polished and competent - which means that I feel nervous about sharing my “learning and thinking out loud” in public.
But, it is for this reason that I am getting started - and this first step is just to say this out loud and then JUMP!
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Hurrah!
Looking good!! Very impressed.
Matt
Just found your blog and am reading curiously - thank you for sharing your desire to ‘look polished and competent’