You know, when you look into starting a blog there are all kinds of websites out there that have advice for how to run your blog.

You have to post so many times a week/month.

You have to post only about things in your niche.  What is your niche?  You have to decide what your niche is and write only for them.

You have to have an email list so you can monetize your blog, because money is the whole point of having a blog, right?

You have to have something free to give away so you can get people to sign up for that email list so eventually you can sell everyone stuff.

Once your blog is up and running, then it’s time to start a podcast.

Then it’s time to consider webinars, online classes, books…

And it goes on and on and on.

And that’s only the people who think that blogs are still viable.  There are those who think that blogging is so three years ago.  Now it’s Insta stories, Snapchat, Facebook Live, Facebook stories.

For awhile there, I actually cared about what all the experts were saying about the best way, the most successful way to run a blog.  As far as they were concerned, it’s the only way to have a blog.

And I don’t care so much about all of those opinions any more.  I understand what they are trying to teach, what they are trying to do.  But all of that just isn’t me.  It feels too much like sales, and I hate sales.

So as much as the experts think that I need to be getting all of you signed up on my email list so I can sell you stuff in the future, I’m not going to.

Not right now, at least.  I’ve got enough going on without having to try to manage an email list.  Then I’d have to think about more stuff to say.  And then I’d have to worry about you finding my hypothetical emails in your inbox annoying.

That’s the last thing I want you to feel about me or my blog.

I’m going to do things the best way they work for me.  And this is working right now.  This is how it’s going to stay for now.