Initial Post

I've never had a particularly high opinion of blogs. It seems to be an interesting offshoot of our society that we feel our opinions are so tremendously important that everyone should listen. In conjunction with collectively being such poor listeners, it drives people to write their opinions in blogs and such. It is said that rather than listening to what other people are saying, individuals are more apt to plan, structure and word their next statement, which doesn't so much make for a dynamic conversation as it creates dueling monologues competing for attention.

There are other uses for blogs as tools, however, which is the motivation I had for starting my own. As a particularly one sided conversation, almost diary, and publicity tool, a blog can be used as a motivational tool; publicly setting goals and time lines makes it much more likely that these will be acheived. The blog can allow for analyses of these goals and time lines and hopefully lead to self improvement.

Thus I embark on the self-motivational, self-analytical, quasi-public forum that is this blog.