How I Started Blogging – And 3 Lessons for You

Today, I cannot think of my life without blogging. Writing for many blogs around the net, I can’t recall when last I did not write and publish at least a blog post in a day.

But blogging wasn’t always something I was passionate about or proficient at. In fact, I “>my first post here on Jewish Journal.

But there’s a part of the story I left out. That’s the part where it took me 6 months to successfully create my first blog/website.

I had registered a domain name and then got stuck. However hard I tinkered with the silly little thing, it just wouldn’t become a website.

Everything I read on it was either too technical or too hazy. Or both.

I decided I wasn’t going to keep ‘Googling’ and staring at pages of content that just made me feel dumb. And so I abandoned it and continued to endure the pressures of “inform us” and “teach us” from friends… for 6 long months.

Eventually, I learned I needed not just a domain name but also a hosting account to make a blog/website. I pulled out my wallet, pulled the trigger and my first blog was birthed.

Today, I write and blog for many blogs around the net, and I even have a blog where I teach nothing other than