Blogging for yourself is hard. Especially when part of your job is blogging for everybody else. So I have all but ignored my personal blog for several months now. And if you check that falls right in line with blogging statistics overall. Start out gangbusters then slowly peter out until your online presence becomes a ghost town.
So why is it so hard?
For some it’s just a matter of not being passionate enough about a topic to blog about it. For others, it’s a confidence issue…”Who is going to want to read my take on the world?” …or “What if somebody doesn’t agree with me and rips me a new one?”
I’m more of the latter.
I am opinionated and passionate…to the point of angering folks and even being labeled obsessive. But, what I’ve found is that many of my critics (and yours too) have major issues themselves. Instead of blazing trails they get more mileage out of crapping on yours.
Some among you just won’t get it.
You will get criticized for what you say…and even for blogging, vlogging, Tweeting, Facebooking at all. But as one of my favorite Dr. Seuss quotes says – “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
So here I go again. A renewed motivation to just get out there and BLOG!
Gary is Online. Now what?
Well, you have to start somewhere. And I’ve decided to start here, today.
A Brief Introduction
I will be brief here but I will give you a much more in-depth intro on my ‘About Gary’ page.
At the time of this writing, I am 42 years old, a married father of two grown boys, one 21 (in three days) and the other 18 and graduating from high school in just over a week. Oh where did the time go?
I am a Pastor’s kid and was raised in the church (Baptist) pretty much all of my life. Even though I am a born again Christian I am now very far removed from the Americanized business model fraud that some people call “the church”. You’ll hear more about that at random.
My interests are, well, the Internet and business. I am a geek to the core. I love to dip my toe into just about anything technical or entrepreneurial that I can.
I am a very passionate, opinionated and frequently sarcastic person and that is why it’s time that I use my personal online spaces as a release. And because my friends and family are tired of hearing it.
So, if you can tolerate me long enough or just have a curiosity into who this nut case is, there will be plenty of material. At the same time I hope to get to know you as well.
For now, thanks for checking out my site and I hope to see you around.
