As I mentioned in my first post, I know exactly zero about blogging.  So in starting this blog, I’m embarking on quite the learning challenge – there’s so much to figure out!

What I didn’t expect though was an unpleasant side effect – the Negatron, or what Steven Pressfield calls the Resistance, Seth Godin’s Lizard Brain.  That voice we all battle with that constantly tells us we can’t do something or we’re not good enough, trying to distract us from the task at hand.

Every time I come across something new that i want to learn about to apply here the voice pipes up, and it’s loud. It’s too hard, why bother. No one’s going to read this anyway so why waste your time with all that difficult stuff? Might as well quit now and just shut it down.

And to be honest, at times it’s tempting.  This is hard for me.  I don’t know what I’m doing and I maybe it’ll take more time than I have available (read: am willing to make available) to learn it.

Or, I can just power on and ignore the voice.  Push past that fear niggling in my belly that this will all be an epic fail and just bloody do something!  Imagine how good it will feel in a few months when I have a blog that vaguely resembles some of the other more professional blogs I regularly read. And it will be that much sweeter because I put in the time and figured it out for myself.

So that’s what I’m going to do. Here goes!