Starting with "I"

I've never liked the idea of starting a sentence with the word "I." It always seems so self-centered, so "look-at-me." The funny thing is, as the youngest in my family and the only boy, I spent a great deal of my childhood running around saying, "Look at me!" As a grown-up, I'm not quite as bad, although my need to be heard is routinely met through my job as a sportswriter and columnist for the Standard-Examiner newspaper which is based in Ogden, Utah.
Anyway, since I've already broken one of my writing rules, I suppose I'll just press forward with my plan to introduce myself and my own personal blog.