Your Team Will Find You
The best advice I ever received in finding a soccer team to cheer for in the English Premier League (EPL) was “Watch a season of EPL without choosing a team. You won’t find your team. Your team will find you.” Unfortunately the team that found me was Aston Villa. After 5 years watching them barely stay above relegation, last year they were abysmal. I now only see how they did from following a blog because Championship League games aren’t televised. But that’s beside the point.
The point of the advice is taking action and the team will find you.
Blogging Niche
I think most people don’t blog because they don’t know their niche. They don’t think they have anything important to say. They aren’t experts in a field and can’t add to the conversation. I think that’s completely untrue. I also think, like with the Premier League, “You won’t find your niche, your niche will find you”.
I am 18 days and counting into my daily blog posts. I still haven’t found my niche. I read a lot about the future of technology, blockchain, freedom of rights, and making the world a better place. But when I try to write blog posts about those things I stumble. I’ve found I’m passionate to read about them, and to take action on them, but blogging about those things isn’t as easy.
Blogging isn’t about adding to your niche. It’s developing a habit. It’s about learning/growing and taking action on your thoughts. If I read an article or listen to a blog post I now start to think how I’d outline that thought into a blog post. In today’s environment everyone should have a blog. It’s free to start a wordpress. It’s quite cheap to connect wordpress to a domain of your choosing. And it’s simple to write.
Blogging is about doing. Once you start doing, the theme of your blog will unfold.