Everyone I've spoken to about blogging have told me that the hardest thing about writing a blog is starting a blog. I created this blog back in November and it's remained blank until then. The original idea was to use this blog as a tool to monitor my progress over the next 5 months or so, share a few things and of course the odd rant from time to time. The inspiration behind it was my best friend Jay who has done something rather out of character and gone travelling. I thought if he's off seeing the world for the next 5 months, I should really do something substantial with my life too.
This blog isn't really themed as such, I will post about anything and everything I feel like or interests me. This is (as I see it) my little corner of the internet, and I'll post more or less what ever I want. Someone once gave me some good advice "Don't post anything you wouldn't want your mum, or your boss to read". In todays world, you can find out anything about anybody on the internet, before they even thinking about publishing content on a blog. Back one track... There will obviously be certain subjects that trend, but don't be surprised if you get the odd post rabbiting about something completely off topic. This is of course assuming that anyone is actually going to bother to read it. To be quite frank, I don't care if they do. I shall immortalise myself in a dark and probably dusty corner of the internet! Let's hope I don't have to die before people finally recognise my genius - poor Leonardo.
I mentioned that this blog would be used to monitor my progress above, and then didn't say what, I did that on purpose. I either lost you a few minutes ago, or you're simply reading on to find out where I'm actually going with this. I am writing this blog to document the next (integral) phase of my life. My aims over the next six months are to:
- Continue to develop as a person and as man (sounds cheesy, but it's very important)
- Progress in my professional career
- Become a better (faster and smoother) mountain biker (XC) and also a better bike mechanic
- Eat better and ultimately learn to cook (I'll be keeping a food diary)
- Get better with money (everyone probably has this goal)
I also said I'd be sharing a few things also, most of it probably being bike porn. I'm not sure quite what I'll be posting yet, but I'm interested in:
- Macs, the fruity computers not the rain jackets...
- Football, Chelsea
- Gaming, PC and Xbox
- Films, who isn't?
- Reptiles, and pretty much any other cool animals
- Lego! (of the Star Wars variety)
- WarHammer 40k (yes I am a shameless geek)
My style of writing probably isn't the best in the world; I was always told I had a nice style of writing at school, but it's kinda gone down hill the last few years. I don't care though, that's why I'm an IT engineer and not an author. I'll make sure I include lots of colourful pictures along the way for those (like me) who hate reading.
So that's my first post, we'll see where we go from here. This blog will probably be abandoned within a week and fall to the back of the internet.... I'll eventually get around to sticking an 'about me' page up to paint the picture for those that don't know me, although I doubt I'll gain a huge following, if any at all.
That's your lot for now.
- Nick
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