Today I’m Going to Start Something New… Again

This isn’t the first time that I’ve begun writing this blog, and truth be told, it probably won’t be the last either. Over the years I’ve tried my hand at this several times; sometimes I get a couple of weeks in, others is just a failure to launch. Do I expect this time to be any different? No, but i hope that it will. I hope that I will become some sort of prolific blogger, and that this blog will eventually turn into a muse for me to start vlogging, and I will finally fulfill a longtime dream of mine to become a content creator. 

Who am I?

With the preliminaries out of the way… Hello World, my name is Ken, and this is my space. I am an aspiring content creator who doesn’t really know what he’s doing. I’m 51 years old, and ever since I was very young I wanted to be a creator. 

It all started with music. I have always loved music, and wanted to create music as a young boy. My tow fascinations as a child were the guitar and the saxophone. My school did not offer guitar lessons, so sax it was, although not quite. You see, my school only had a limited number of saxophones, so they always started students who wanted to play saxophone on clarinet. I hated the clarinet, and gave up on that part of the way through my first year. I also saved up my allowance and bought a guitar, but for whatever reason, I lost interest in that as well. Throw in the fact that I’m tone deaf, and well you get the picture. To this day, I have no idea how to read or play music.

I have also tried, at different times in my life to be a writer, photographer, and videographer, but nothing ever seems to stick. I have started this blog so many times, only to have forgotten about it two weeks later. I have resolved to take more photos, challenged myself to 30 day photo challenges, all to have given up on that a week or two in. A couple of years ago I started a YouTube channel filming myself skiing and doing various winter sports, then life happened. I’m not sure why I gave up on that one but I did.

Who am I? Right now I am a 51 year old quitter, who is striving to change his lot in life. 

What’s next?

Although I will probably never become a musician, I just don’t have the skills or the tools for that, I could become a content creator. I could use the tools that I do have. I have a computer, and iPad. I have several cameras for taking both photos and videos. 

I do love the process of creating, I am just not very good at it. So my goal, as they say, is to fake it until I make it. My plan is use this space to nurture a writing habit. I will probably also use this space (along with others) to share photos and videos that I create. I am going to start with baby steps though and put myself out there in written form first. If I can develop this habit, then I will move on to photography and videos.

The topic that I plan to focus on, at least initially, will be my own personal health and fitness. This will tick off two of my New Year’s Resolutions: 1. To focus on my health more in 2025, and 2. To start a blog and vlog in 2025. Topics, specifically, could be what I am doing new that month, and tracking any measurable differences that I see, to my workouts, to what I am doing for fun.  

Initially I am not going to spend a whole lot of time on editing, because I think that I need to focus on getting content out one to two times a week. Hopefully blog posts will, like this one, will be somewhere between 750 and 1000 words. Now I just have to come up with a plan to make that happen…


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