I love to cook,I've been a cook in some part of my life and I cook daily now since I live on my own so I do see some similarity between blogging and cooking.
What would you need when you want to cook?Firstly you must decide what the menu would be,same as blogging,when you want to start a blog,you have to decide what you should blog about.Once you know what your menu would be,you buy all the ingredient,prepare it,and you must have some kitchen utensil like a knife,chopping board and a pan to cook your meal and a stove to cook it on,or maybe you use a microwave oven.Same as blogging,once you decide what you want to blog about,you make notes on what your article would be,which blogging platform to use and there are certain tools that you need to add to your blog.
I have no formal training on how to cook,I mostly learn through observation,especially looking at how my mother would prepare the dish,and later learning by looking at how the senior cook do it.I also watch cooking programs on TV to add some extra knowledge.Same goes for blogging,there are no formal training for bloggers,no school to attend,but we learn by looking at other blogs,especially the one by a well known blogger.We watch video tutorials,read ebooks about blogging,the rest is a trial by error process.
Almost anybody can cook,or must have cook something in their whole life,maybe a burger,frying eggs,but not all can cook very well,like preparing lunch or dinner for a few friends,or maybe cooking a special dinner for your date to impress him or her.Anybody can start their own blog,a very simple blog about daily happenings in life,or maybe a specific niche blog,about making money,weight loss,celebrity,religion or even blogging tips,but,like cooking,not everybody can blog very well,maybe you are an average blogger,or you don't have it in you to actually be a good blogger,but like cooking,you can always learn,and these days,there are instant food that you can prepare just by putting it in the microwave,turn on the heat,and its ready,but it won't taste as good as the one being prepared from scratch,the same goes about blogging,there are a lot of tools that you can use,you can even get free articles to put on your blog if you find it hard to write one on your own,but it won't be as good as the one that you wrote yourself.
I don't have a stove or a microwave oven,but I can still prepare my food,simply by using my rice cooker!One of the most important thing I learn about cooking is how to improvise,to make use of whatever that is available,but still manage to prepare a decent dish for lunch,or dinner.You can always apply it to blogging too,you have limited resources,so you use free blogging platform instead of paying for a domain and hosting,use whatever that is available for you,and don't give excuse if you really want to start a blog,really want to be a serious blogger.There are free blog templates if you want your blog to look different,all kind of free widgets that you can add to your blog to make it look better and different.
Once you are done cooking,it is time to eat.How does it taste?Good..then you have it in you..Awful..you better just buy your lunch and dinner or ask someone to cook for you.You have finish writing your post,now it is time to publish it..you read it once,twice..satisfied..you hit the publish button..or you read it once,change something a bit,read it again..still there is something wrong..in the end..you just delete the whole post because you think it is not good enough.If you taste your cooking and feels that it taste so bad,imagine what others will say if you give it to them,same goes for blogging,if you doesn't feel that your writing is good,how would others respond to it,maybe blogging is not for you,even though you know people do make money blogging,don't make a fool of yourself trying to be like them,because they achieve it not in 3 month time and by using free articles.
I love to cook,that is why I can easily learn about it and be good at it because I do it regularly,the same goes to blogging,I love blogging,that is why I can still be here,posting to my blog,doing it regularly so I can one day be very good at it.It is easier to learn when you learn about something you like,and you will have fun doing it,because it is something that you love doing.I cook for fun,but because of it,I improve myself,become a good cook and I get paid doing it,so hopefully I will find the same kind of success blogging.
What would you need when you want to cook?Firstly you must decide what the menu would be,same as blogging,when you want to start a blog,you have to decide what you should blog about.Once you know what your menu would be,you buy all the ingredient,prepare it,and you must have some kitchen utensil like a knife,chopping board and a pan to cook your meal and a stove to cook it on,or maybe you use a microwave oven.Same as blogging,once you decide what you want to blog about,you make notes on what your article would be,which blogging platform to use and there are certain tools that you need to add to your blog.
I have no formal training on how to cook,I mostly learn through observation,especially looking at how my mother would prepare the dish,and later learning by looking at how the senior cook do it.I also watch cooking programs on TV to add some extra knowledge.Same goes for blogging,there are no formal training for bloggers,no school to attend,but we learn by looking at other blogs,especially the one by a well known blogger.We watch video tutorials,read ebooks about blogging,the rest is a trial by error process.
Almost anybody can cook,or must have cook something in their whole life,maybe a burger,frying eggs,but not all can cook very well,like preparing lunch or dinner for a few friends,or maybe cooking a special dinner for your date to impress him or her.Anybody can start their own blog,a very simple blog about daily happenings in life,or maybe a specific niche blog,about making money,weight loss,celebrity,religion or even blogging tips,but,like cooking,not everybody can blog very well,maybe you are an average blogger,or you don't have it in you to actually be a good blogger,but like cooking,you can always learn,and these days,there are instant food that you can prepare just by putting it in the microwave,turn on the heat,and its ready,but it won't taste as good as the one being prepared from scratch,the same goes about blogging,there are a lot of tools that you can use,you can even get free articles to put on your blog if you find it hard to write one on your own,but it won't be as good as the one that you wrote yourself.
I don't have a stove or a microwave oven,but I can still prepare my food,simply by using my rice cooker!One of the most important thing I learn about cooking is how to improvise,to make use of whatever that is available,but still manage to prepare a decent dish for lunch,or dinner.You can always apply it to blogging too,you have limited resources,so you use free blogging platform instead of paying for a domain and hosting,use whatever that is available for you,and don't give excuse if you really want to start a blog,really want to be a serious blogger.There are free blog templates if you want your blog to look different,all kind of free widgets that you can add to your blog to make it look better and different.
Once you are done cooking,it is time to eat.How does it taste?Good..then you have it in you..Awful..you better just buy your lunch and dinner or ask someone to cook for you.You have finish writing your post,now it is time to publish it..you read it once,twice..satisfied..you hit the publish button..or you read it once,change something a bit,read it again..still there is something wrong..in the end..you just delete the whole post because you think it is not good enough.If you taste your cooking and feels that it taste so bad,imagine what others will say if you give it to them,same goes for blogging,if you doesn't feel that your writing is good,how would others respond to it,maybe blogging is not for you,even though you know people do make money blogging,don't make a fool of yourself trying to be like them,because they achieve it not in 3 month time and by using free articles.
I love to cook,that is why I can easily learn about it and be good at it because I do it regularly,the same goes to blogging,I love blogging,that is why I can still be here,posting to my blog,doing it regularly so I can one day be very good at it.It is easier to learn when you learn about something you like,and you will have fun doing it,because it is something that you love doing.I cook for fun,but because of it,I improve myself,become a good cook and I get paid doing it,so hopefully I will find the same kind of success blogging.
