I’m working on business development with a client who has a new blog. It’s been a long time coming. She dragged her feet for more than six months before publishing her first post last month. Back in November, over coffee one afternoon with a mutual friend, I listened to her rattling off excuses and objections. I found myself thinking, Just @#$%ing do it already!

Then I felt like a hypocrite. I thought about all my own half-baked writing projects …[more]