It’s January 2022 and that means that it’s time to start a blog. I’ve already seen posts from people who have committed to writing every day in 2022.
I’m not one of those people.
Sure, I’ll say I have the best of intentions, but those intentions will probably last about 17 minutes.
Regardless, I’ve decided to write. But what should I write about?
Answering that question is the reason many never start a blog, in my opinion.
So, here’s what you can do about it.
Just write.
You can always go back later and change your posts, just as many people have done in the past.
Take Steve Pavlina, for instance (he writes a very popular personal development blog. I don’t always agree with what he writes but he does make me think, and that’s good enough for me).
Here’s a link to his first blog post: https://stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/10/first-post/
Except that’s not how it originally appeared. He must have changed it. Oh, the horrors!
If you go to the Wayback Machine (at https://archive.org) and look for his site, you’ll see that it was first crawled and archived on October 12, 2004. At that time, the post talked about how some of his friends were trying to talk him into writing and publishing a book about a very non-personal development topic, namely software publishing.
Talk about a pivot!
But if Steve’s allowed to do it, so are you. I hereby give you permission to make 999 trillion changes to your website (but the truth is that you don’t need anybody’s permission to do that, much less mine).
(If you’re interested, you can check out Steve’s original post as it appeared in 2004 at https://web.archive.org/web/20041108184713/http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/index.php?p=1)
So go ahead. Write about what’s on your mind. The process of simply writing will help bring clarity to your life and your blog will probably take a direction that’ll surprise even you. And when you and your website do change direction, just go back and change stuff.
As for me, here are my current goals for this site:
- Bring in some extra income.
- Help people.
- Give me an excuse to write.
Have these goals changed since I started this blog (for what seems to be the 27th time) in January 2022?
Go check out the Wayback Machine to find out. 🙂
Had I realized that it’s OK to change up your blog/website, this would still be the first time I started this blog.
But for now, as soon as I hit “publish” on this post, there’s a ton of work to be done and a ton of things I “need” to write about. Thanks for checking this site out and I hope you’ll stick around.