Why I Blog & Should You?

Hello and welcome back to my blog! I want to share with you the reasons why I blog and give you advice if you are thinking of starting one. I hope you enjoy reading, and thanks for visiting my blog!

Before jumping into my reasons, I want to briefly explain my back story to how I got started. Back in the summer of 2016 I was talking to my Dad about wanting to create something online. My Dad gave me the idea of starting a blog and I looked more into the idea and fell in love with it. Blogs typically only contain written posts, but I decided to learn the basics of filming, editing, and uploading videos to add to my blog as well. To this day, I still enjoy creating video content!

In the summer of 2016 I decided to make my first written post called "What I Wish I Knew Before High School". The main purpose of the post was to provide insight and support to students in high school through my 4 year experience. After writing it I had such an amazing feeling getting everything I had experienced into words. Writing down my struggles and realizations made it easier to understand them and I was putting my information out there for other students to learn from! In 2016, I made my blog all about high school and I could see myself creating countless content about that. However, once I entered university I found that all I wanted to write about was my experience moving away from home, being a university student, and everything in-between. If you have been keeping up with my blog posts, you may have noticed that I compare and reflect a lot between university and high school and it's been an eye opener for me and a really beneficial way to help students. My goal now with my blog is to give advice to students, whether they are towards the end of their high school years or in university, of what to expect at school, what my experiences are, and how to succeed. I've also created a "Day In My Life" series for the sole purpose of allowing you as my reader to get to know me as a person. I've had individuals in the past bring up my blog when they talk to me and tell me how they like it, which shocks me at first but makes me feel accomplished! After hearing these things, I really wanted to make an effort to allow the people that seem my blog posts, whether it's every Monday or once a month, to get to know me as a person! I could write about blogging all day, but to sum up everything... I blog because it is a fun and satisfying way for me to release my thoughts, to use the knowledge I have gained to help other students, and to tap into the creative part of me and create fun and interesting content!

I get a lot of joy from creating video and written posts on my blog, so if you are considering starting a blog... make sure it's something you can see yourself enjoying as a hobby! I will admit... some weeks it's hard to come up with an idea for a blog post, but there's always going to be an idea that you missed or haven't thought of yet! It takes a lot of commitment to set aside 1-2 hours to create a post each week, but if you enjoy enough... it'll definitely be worth it! If you decide you want to start a blog, just do it! Go on your computer, search up a website creator site such as Wix (like me), WordPress, Weebly, etc. and start!

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