I'm Starting Again!

Hello again!

It's been almost 3 years since I wrote on my blog.

If you read my first post on July 1, 2023 - Sharing is Caring, I introduced myself and shared about how writing a blog was never really something I thought I would ever do. My big push to finally have a blog was a requirement I had in a certification course I was completing. I posted for that course and completed my certification... and never posted on my blog again.

Over the past 3 years, I thought of starting my blog again for many different reasons. At the same time, I also didn't push through with it for just as many reasons.

Here are some of the things that kept me from actually writing my blog:
1) I'm not a writer. - The thought of being grammatically wrong, or not being consistent with my tenses, or possibly typing in an odd way always made me think twice.
2) What if I'm just babbling away online. - I would often ask myself what value I had to offer to you, the person reading this. What if by the end of this post, you realized it wasn't really worth your time? Adding value to the person on the other side of this is always important to me.
3) The perfect time or date to start. - In 2023, I made it a point to post on July 1. I often thought I want to start the blog again on the first of the month, or something significant like my birthday.
4) I'm a talker. - If you're reading this and you know me personally, or you've met me before, you can probably see that how I write and type is how I actually speak. I often worry that maybe the way I write and organize my thought might not flow as well as you would like.
5) I don't exactly like how my blog functions. - There are some things with how my this whole thing works that I'm not really happy with. I wish I could format more. I wish I could insert photos. I wish this and that, and I'm not really techy enough to figure it out.

I mentioned these were "some". I could go on and on with more things that have kept me from writing.

Instead, here are the things I've realized with these 5 reasons that have stopped me:
1) I'm not a writer. - So what? Lots of people have blogs and aren't great at writing either. At the very least, there's spellcheck and I can make sure I don't misspell words.
2) What if I'm just babbling away online. - That's what paragraphs and sections are for. Every space between thoughts conveys I'm changing topics or what I'm focusing on. Family, friends, acquaintances, and clients listen to what I say verbally, why should it be any different online? I've read blogs where the writer is pouring their heart out for their own benefit, and I end up connecting with something they shared. Even if you, the person reading this, take just one thing from what I've shared, that's already valuable.
3) The perfect time or date to start. - When will it ever be the perfect time?! I'll keep delaying this waiting for a seemingly significant date.
4) I'm a talker. - I know I make sense when I talk. Communication is one of my strengths. I'm great at getting my message across. So if I'm typing/writing the way I talk, surely I make sense somehow and you get what I'm saying.
5) I don't exactly like how my blog functions. - I'll work with what I've got. When I figure out how to fix it and what to do with it, then this whole experience will just get better and better. Things will improve, not just for myself, but also for you.

So... here I am, starting this blog again. It's January 29, 2026, on a Thursday afternoon, typing away because NOW is the perfect time. If not now, I'll probably get to this in another 3 years. I'm making today a significant day to get my blog up and running again.

I just searched for a quote to end with and found this perfect one!

“You don't need a new day to start over, you only need a new mindset.” Hazel Hira Ozbek

So here's to the mindset shifts I've made around writing a blog and to finally starting this again!