On Tuesday, I stood in front of a lot of people and encouraged them to take action to tell their stories and to connect with the larger community. I asked them to tweet, blog, and advocate. I do all of these but not with any consistency so I decided that if I was going to lecture others about what they should be doing, I should do the same.

It is time to organize a consistent twitter and blogging practice. I am an active advocate but could be more connected with my own local legislators.

So…here is my first blog post in that direction…mostly a public commitment to connect more intentionally.

I have written about my commitment to 10,000 steps and one thing I have learned is that you must plan ahead in order to meet the challenge. With the excuse of the conference behind me, it is time to start scheduling these commitments.

And…I have now been doing the steps for 243 days…