Your first time at anything - work, performing arts, a sportsperson's debut, sex - anything, has an inherent elevated level of importance attributed to it, as though that first impression will make or break you.
Sometimes it will, but often it won't.
Take this new blog for example, which I've been working on creating for a little while now.
Part of the procrastination in hitting the button to go live has been in waiting for a special idea to inspire my first post, so that I leave an indelible impression on the blogosphere.
I decided last night to scroll through the 1300+ twitter posts I've treated the world to over the last couple of years, remembering that a similar reluctance delayed my arrival on the Twitter scene.
As it turns out my first tweet was far from inspiring, just a basic retweet of someone else, more of a test to see if I could handle such a wildly complex online platform before getting stuck in to it.
So with that in mind, today I post the first of many new blogs under the New World Audit appellation.
A New World Audit is an acknowledgement that the times, they are a changing - for us all. And as the world changes, we also change - and so do our views on the issues that we encounter.
So, as we wade through the increasingly blurred lines of sport, politics, technology, family, work and the new world around us, I invite you to join my journey in giving you my take on it.
This is the beginning of my New World Audit.
