I started The Mental Emotional Health Blog a couple months ago, and it has been enjoyable. Just last week I completed my 50th entry here! I had many reasons for starting a blog: clearing my mind after therapy, expressing random thoughts about mental and emotional health (big surprise, huh?), and attempting to improve and draw a little attention to my writing. Another reason is to start connecting to other writers/bloggers all over the world. You see, I love reading other people’s perspectives in my own quest to learn and grow.
But today, I invite you to start your own blog if you have any interest in writing or sharing your ideas with the world. You can actually do it for free at http://wordpress.com/ . Wordpress has plenty of information to help get you started and to keep helping as you continue. You have the choice of either using their free service, which will have “wordpress” as part of your website address with limited features, or you can download Wordpress to your own website if you have one. I wanted to have my own website and didn’t mind “investing” a few bucks, so that’s the route I went. But even if you decide to go the free route, the limited features at Wordpress are certainly enough to allow you to create your blog presence.
The flexibility of having a blog is amazing, and I know I will still be learning more about that for a long time. You can write once daily or once a month. You can link to sites you like and think other people might be interested in. You can sell stuff, you can review products, and you can also “monetize” your blog, which means you have the potential to make money from having a blog (if interested, check out http://www.johnchow.com/). But most important, you can express yourself and your thoughts. Introduce yourself to the world. The people who want to learn about you and the subjects you write about will eventually find your writing.
Go for it. You have something to offer!
