(an unconventionally lukewarm) WELCOME!: aka First Blog Post Ever

Greetings weary wanderers of the web!

You are either reading this because you are a close colleague of mine who was intrigued, or baffled, that I had posted/created a blog…or because you’ve been on the internet/social media for too long and Bordem’s hand has helped you to land here…

Either way! I grant you my (luke)warmest WELCOME.

Assuming most of you know who I am, (and if you don’t…go read my bio page or watch a current or future documentary that will be filmed 10 years from now) and you may be asking what the heck this is//what “the point” is?

As a preface, but also a declaration before my next paragraph: I am just a regular dude out of Delaware/Sunbury, Ohio. I don’t have any special skills (although I wish I did), and ultimately I’m just some dude trying to figure out what he is doing with his life…

Cool.

With that out of the way, let’s talk about the PURPOSE of this whole thing.

I will be creating blog posts that will fall into three broad bins/categories:

BIN 1: The Creative Bin

This bin will be to exercise my creative writing skills and storytelling ability on a public platform. In these posts, I just want to have fun and experiment with different writing styles, grammar, voices, themes, all of it. Sort of going for a HALO Forge map effect here. (Yes, this post you are reading will be within the confines of this Bungie bin).

BIN 2: The Monthly Challenge or MC Bin

First, I will be trying out or trying to implement some habit or challenging myself to do something for an entire month. It’ll be like mini-month-long experiments on myself! I feel that many people do similar challenges (some prominent names I admire and also do these types of experiments include Tim Ferris and Matt D’avella, among so many more). At some point, I realized that I can read and watch as much content or information on “something” as I want, but I won’t really understand or fully understand all of the benefits or its overall effect unless I actually do it MYSELF. So yeah! This bin is for documenting my experiences! The pros, the cons, my thoughts, and if I would continue!

BIN 3: Value Bin

Whereas the latter Bins may provide you, the reader, some entertainment or indirect value. This Bin is for providing as much DIRECT value as possible. This bin will have more research associated with it. It may contain PDF documents of “one-pager” book summaries, tips and tricks, or just learnings I have come across that may help you in your own life in some way! As much as I am excited about writing for the other two bins, this bin is going to be me practicing value creation for consumers.

And yeah! That’s about it!

I am still trying to figure out how to separate my posts into these Bins, but for now, I will just try to make the titles of the blog posts allude to the type of content within.

This is going to be an interesting, exciting, and probably difficult journey. I know I am going to suck at writing and get discouraged (especially now, in the beginning). (Ex. This document was created July 28th, edited both August 20th, 25th, and 30th, and September 4th but was NEVER FINISHED OR POSTED)

I hope to have more of a consistent structure or theme to these posts… but for now, I’ll stick to my cheesy Instagram taglines:

Here’s to the first and last blog post of 2020.