If not now, when?

A few days ago I read an interesting post  about the power of putting your most important work first, before the day is overrun with stuff that doesn't matter. This got me thinking about how I've been planning a blog since the Mesozoic era. In no particular order, here were some of my roadblocks:

• my blog would look stupid;
• people would rather read cereal boxes and no one would ever comment;
• good blogs have a specific focus, and I am all over the place;
• serious Buddhist practitioners would lecture me on monkey mind;
• I would inadvertently hurt someones feelings and/or my kids would be embarrassed;
• and on and on.

But today, plagued by a full-to-bursting mind and the need to stop oversharing on Facebook, I decided to jump in. Who knew it would be so easy to create a blog? All this time I could have been pestering you with my petty grievances and bad recipes.

As for monkey mind, I have a terminal case. Those monkeys bring me a boatload of great ideas, and my biggest problem is that some people actually expect me to do something with them. But that's another topic for another day. For now let's just say that I'm at peace with my varied interests, and those are what I want to share with you.