Blogging is enjoyable for me. I like writing in short bursts rather than trying to create long articles or book chapters. It also disciplines me to write regularly.

I haven’t blogged much in the past week. My output has decreased. While that bothers me a little, I am reconciled to choosing quality over quantity. Some days I could blog but it wouldn’t be very stimulating for me or the reader. I could focus strictly on output and through sheer willpower churn out one or more blogs every single day. For me, that would defeat the purpose. Even if nobody reads what I write in my blog–and there are days when that might well be the case–the quality of my output is important to me.

The other consideration is that life sometimes interferes with our best plans and intentions. I’ve had a few personal and professional challenges lately that are out of the norm. I could have blindly “blogged on” but to do so would have been somewhat in denial of what I needed to focus on at the time. The time taken to blog would have been time taken from addressing what needed my attention at the moment.

Certainly we live in a world where more is said than done. Results are important, but let’s not become so fixated on output that we miss the point: creating products and services that are of value.

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