I don't know whether it was the whole end of the year or that other people were doing it, but I was thinking about what to write for a blog entry the other day and then mindlessly checking my blog stats (as a way of procrastinating, of course) and I noticed that the post that I am writing now is #392. That means that in about eight posts, I'll have 400 posts under my belt. 2012 also means that I'll be on the home stretch of my fifth year. While I'm pretty sure it's the most posts (hey, that rhymes) I have written for a blog, it certainly isn't the longest I've kept a blog going--a now-defunct and deleted blog of mine went for seven years before I retired it--but 400 posts and five years definitely prompts one to pause and reflect.
So I kind of want to do just that. I mean, I can't be the only blogger who rereads old posts of his every once in a while and either cringes at some of the things said or pats himself on the back (come on, we all have egos here, you can admit it). And there certainly are self-proclaimed forward-thinking bloggers out there who like to plug their own work on a fairly regular basis, so me taking a few posts to do something similar is just me following trends, right?
That last paragraph made no sense.
ANYWAY, I figured I would take a look back at some old posts and do a bit of reflection ... call it, as you guessed by the title, lessons learned and mistakes made. After all, if you cannot look back and evaluate yourself, what good are you, right?
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