I am leading a coaches clinic at the NSRF Meeting later this week with the title "Using Weblogs as Tools for Reflection." As I've prepared for the presentation, I've once again been struck by how central the act of reflecting is to my work and how my work unravels when I do not deliberately reflect.

I'm embarrassed that I have posted so few entries over the last few months. I slacked off when a colleague wondered out loud if anybody was really reading the blog. The implication was that the time I spent writing entries wasn't "worth it." Encountering technical difficulties such as an unreliable email program and an avalanche of comment spam made me slack off of posting blog entries even more.

As a result, I feel like I've just been moving from deadline to deadline in my work without much inspiration. I've learned that my blog is as much a tool for motivating current planning and action as it is a tool for encouraging reflection on the recent past.

GOAL: I will post public entries to this weblog at least twice a week.