I am so sorry for being ‘away’ from my blog for such a long time. Things have been quite busy around the Mann Made Time offices, and I have been wanting to write some great posts - really - but I was coming up with nothing. I mean…I have ideas all the time. My Gemini/entrepreneur brain is going all the time. But I believe if you don’t have anything very interesting to ’say’ in your blog - or if you can’t say it well - then you shouldn’t say something just for the sake of saying it.

I know I should carefully craft my blog posts in advance, I know that, but that’s not my style. I am a very passionate person. When I feel passionately about something, everyone that knows me knows about it. If I write a post today about the benefits of sticky notes with the intention of posting it in a week from now, well, that just doesn’t feel right to me. In a week from now I might want to blog about desk drawer organizers and blogging about post it notes might feel - I don’t know - dishonest or something. It’s a mental thing, I know nobody cares if I switch the topics, but it’s just too structured for this…my little outlet for creativity…my blog.

Now it’s not like I haven’t had interesting things happen over the last couple of weeks to be blogging about. It just seemed as though a great idea would pop in my head on a day that I was so busy working and writing other people’s blog posts that I couldn’t get to my own.

I’ve had lots of topics come to mind:

• Should I blog about the insanity of the new toner cartridges I have to order costing $600 while the whole printer with three colors and black toner would cost me $220?
• Perhaps I should blog about what a great printer that was since I’ve had it for two years and this is the first time the color cartridges have run dry.
• Maybe I could write about the difference between marketing and advertising. Nah…that one will take too much thought.
• There are a few real estate tools I could blog about, but I’d have to piece it together.
• The book “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer was an amazing read, but it’s not a business book. Could I extrapolate a business lesson from that book? Stop it Jaime - you read that for pleasure.

Now, keeping in mind that I have two children under the age of three, and I have not slept through the night since June 2005 (no exaggeration) maybe I was experiencing some negativity from the sleep deprivation. I mean, I have the ability to turn any of those topics into interesting blog posts, right?  Probably, but I just haven’t had the time. All of my best hours have been spent on client work (and of course, aforementioned children).

I felt that any post I would make would simply not be good. I’ve posted less than stellar posts in the past, just for the sake of posting something. That, my friends, is a mistake. No post is better than a boring post.

So, I think you should thank me now for not cluttering your RSS feeder with uninspiring posts over the last two weeks.

I have come to learn that it’s true in blogging as it is in life. If you don’t have anything nice to say, really, don’t say anything at all.

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