Is 2011 your year to become a blogger?

I hope so.

What I want to spend this week doing is giving you a truly idiot-proof guide to getting your blog up and running. I can write on this subject with authority because if I can run a blog, anyone can run a blog.

Today I want to talk about getting past your first excuse: But I don’t have anything to say.

My response to that is two-fold:

First, if you have any experience reading blogs or people’s Facebook statuses or Twitter feeds, then you might get the impression that 99% of what’s published online is completely useless. But it’s not stopping anyone from putting it out there. So why let that mute you?

Second, hogwash. Of course you have something to say. You email friends, right? You update your status on Facebook, don’t you? You gripe about lousy customer service, I’m sure. You tell friends about how you were moved by a great haircut or pizza or sermon.

You’ve got something to say.

My first post was about a deal I got on a jacket at Land’s End. The next few were just some jokes about some stuff I saw in the news. After a while, I wrote some stories about the kids.

Just get started. You’ll figure it out.

Comment about something that happened in the news. Post your family’s meal plan for the week. Write about how you wish you could get your family on a meal plan for the week. Tell folks what’s on your iPod. Recap the three best things that happened during your day.

You’ve got something to say.

Don’t you want to see what it is?