My son arrived home from hospital 2 weeks ago today. He was born 4 weeks early and while I have plenty written in journals about the last while, I have nothing on screen.

However, I don’t want this blog to turn into a diary of my sons life. As much as I love him and want to describe everything that happening to me, to him, to my family, I feel that a better use of my time is to do my bit to make his world, the world he will grow up in, a more empathetic and compassionate place to grow up in.

The interesting thing about writing with this new focus (he is 2 week old after all, and 4 weeks early!), is that it somehow takes the onus off me, to write for me. I'm writing for a very targeted audience in a way, an audience of one. The words I write now wont be accessible to him for years yet but when he reads them I want them to be fresh, still relevant and above all else, useful, both to him and to others.

How do I go about achieving this? Its hard enough to just write a blog post about what I ate for breakfast and make it interesting, but something genuinely well thought out, panned and emotionally involved? I guess I’ll do what I (and all writers do) always do and just put pen to paper. "We don't need more genius" Seth Godin told us, "we need less resistance".

If every moment of your life is an opportunity to start something, to stop something, to change something, to risk something, then the birth of your first baby must be up there with the best of those moments.