So, I’ve started a blog. Yep, I’ve joined the bagillions of other people who have blogs. I’ve resisted this whole blogging thing for a long time, and I’ll tell you why. I’ve grouped it into four major reasons.

First of all, I’m not sure I am going to be any good at this. I read and follow plenty of amazing blogs about weight loss, families, health struggles, business building, crafting,  and religion and all sorts of things. I mean, there are some amazing blogs out there. I have a degree with writing in the title, but really, does that mean that I should be doing this? Would mine be any good?

That leads me into the next issue with me blogging. What in the world am I going to blog about?  I could blog about any of those many things that I mentioned above. I could do a blog about all of me doing all of Martha Stewart’s Good Things and call it Martha and Martha (oh wait, I think that idea has already been done). Do I need a gimmick? A catch? What would make people read my blog? 

And why would anyone read my blog?  I am not really anything special. I am not a coach, a successful business woman, a weight loss success story. I (thankfully) am not struggling though any huge health issues, and my 2 kids and 1 hubby are pretty normal. I am not a millionaire, I don’t have a million followers on twitter, and I don’t really have a million craft ideas.  I do not have some (known) great purpose, no great mission in life.

The last and actually probably the biggest reason is FEAR. That is it. I am afraid of so many things. With regards to blogging though – I am afraid I will make some mistake on here and it will haunt me. I am afraid that I will offend someone (or many someones). I am afraid that no one will read this and that I will have put effort into this for *no* reason. And I am super-duper afraid that I will fail at this like I have failed so many other times in my life.

So there you go, all of the main reasons why I should not start a blog.  I am sure there are tons more, conscious or not. So, why did I start one? And what is my blog really about? You’ll have to come back to find out.