Practicing what you preach

This is a call to bloggers to practice what you preach and then share your results with the rest of us. If you can’t live up to your own hype, then maybe you should consider not wasting our time with your vapid blog entries.

It’s time for a useful blogosphere, not one riddled with information pollution.

As I read other blogs, I see a lot of preaching, but no practicing. I even had the privilege of working directly with someone who writes his own blog, and I didn’t see half of his ideas ever get implemented.

With all of this information overload, I’m getting frustrated. What’s the point of writing a blog entry about one of your half-baked ideas if you don’t even execute on it yourself? Is anyone really reading your stuff and taking it up? Or are you just preaching to the choir? Are you writing just to hear yourself talk?

How I’m honoring this

I’ve already made an attempt to give practical examples of how I’m pursuing my own ideas. I’m hoping to have a “practicing what I preach” section in my of my own blog entries in the future (this entry included!). Maybe you should consider doing the same.

I’m also hoping to hold myself accountable publicly in representing my ideas. This means sharing details that most companies prefer to keep private. This means making my strategy a little more public than most companies prefer. And I’m fine with that. Again, I’m executing, not dreaming.

Are you willing to live up to this as well?

Photo credit: chicken head preacher by ™bluhousworker. Original photo by Ted Sher. Some rights reserved.