Blog Launch: Version...*cough*

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So, this is familiar. I've been starting blogs since 1999.

Feelings are running high, dreams of the future; then, some obstacle occurs. The spark fizzles and doubts creep in.

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What do I know? What value could I offer? I'm going to look stupid...

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The doubt starts as a whisper and builds to a level I can't ignore... and then I quit.

Or I get busy... Or I have nothing to say... or I can't figure out WordPress...

But after 25 years and probably 25 blogs, I'm back again.

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Oh. Sorry, I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Nicole. Is this where I'm supposed to tell you why you should listen to me?

Well, even though I'm scared, I still show up. Even though I quit, I start again. And with each "failure," I get a little better.

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Before I let you go, a little more about me: I desperately want to have my own online business. I have a "good" job, but it exhausts me.

I want something different.

I'm so specialized in my training that I don't feel like I have anything else to offer.

I know that's BS. But it's how I feel.

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I'm not the only one, but it sure feels like it. I scroll through the internet, and I feel like a small fish in a big pond.

The whisper, I don't have anything to offer.

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I want to interject for a moment; I don't actually hear these voices, so you don't have to worry but indulge me for a moment more.

But then I think, okay. So, get something to offer.

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And that's what this blog is. My offering. To people like me, who want to break free from under the yoke of wage slavery but have doubt.

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Seeing a normie like me, navigate the obstacles in real-time might inspire you to follow suit. I hope it does.

Thanks for reading.

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