Is the first post always the hardest?

I’ve taken several stabs at starting a blog, though never seriously.  I think that is because the first post is so terribly difficult to write.  What do you focus on?  I believe I typically get caught in the vicious cycle of over-thinking the first post – trying to be too profound too early.  The profundity of a blog is more likely an aggregate assessment rather than any single post.  It is with this in mind that i’ll try once again to start – and hopefully maintain – a blog.

Ramblings of the mind.

This blog is intended to address several facets of my life and work.  It should be interesting to see how they intertwine, or whether i’ll need to separate them based on the distinct foci of eventual readers (yes, an assumption i know).  In particular, i expect to discuss topics including:

• Productivity and Getting Things Done – both generally and in the context on work and home life and documenting the struggles of implementing a GTD system.
• Government Consulting – my current industry. In a professional context, it makes sense to try and document and consolidate the lessons learned about interacting with clients and their organizations.  These lessons should include specific IT consulting related topics including portfolio management, enterprise architecture, customer engagement, strategic planning, alignment of IT efforts, governance, and how to operate in political and immature government agencies.
• Communications and Influence – while related to the topic immediately above, and the focus of a lot of my efforts at work, worthy of being its own category.  In particular, this will focus on communicating with decision makers – the art of reducing information into consumable bits of visual queues that enable leaders to make informed decisions without wasting too much time in menial details.
• Photography – i haven’t thought this one through, but i enjoy taking pictures (mostly of my son), and i like the idea of learning more about photography in general, though i have limited amounts of time to spend focused on it.