2 Things I Realized By Starting A Blog

Jerry Pompilio
5 min readFeb 23, 2020
Photo by Michał Parzuchowski on Unsplash

Why do I want to start a blog?

Well just like everyone else, I wanted to get rich. That’s not the only reason. I believe my experience can help others. Not only to start a blog but to experience the pleasure and gratification of identifying and accomplishing a goal.

Don’t Buy The Bull

Unlike all the hype you see out on the internet, you can’t put up a web site and sit back and watch the money roll right in.

If you truly want to learn about this wonderful media, you soon find out that there is a lot to learn. The most valuable thing I’m learning is not as much about making money, or building a blog but more about building yourself. Understanding your thoughts and emotions.

This journey is becoming quite enlightening. The education I’m getting has become a very challenging and rewarding experience. One, I would recommend to everyone.

What made me think about the purpose of this blog was to share my everyday experiences in confronting the trials and tribulations we all face every day of our lives. From the moment we wake, up till we lay our head on our pillow to go to sleep.

To open up a dialogue as to how I made it through, and let me and others know how you make through. And hopefully, we’ll all get through this together.

My approach to life’s everyday challenges comes from a technical perspective. For most of my adult life, I have been employed in occupations that required technical knowledge and skills. I acquired these skills through natural curiosity and a quest for learning and training.

The trill of Learning

I discovered joy and fulfillment that comes to me when I’m able to overcome a challenge or to fix a problem. I realized I wasn’t the only one that feels an emotional reward and satisfaction when learning something new. I realized the gratification you get when you push yourself to confront a challenge and accomplish a goal

It’s a very interesting thing I’m discovering as I writing this post.

I’m still learning more about the process as I’m trying to share it with others. I had first thought that patients will be my primary advantage. Like a dog with a bone. You need to stay with a challenge to get to completion. Despite the setbacks and interruptions, you face you can’t quit. Once you quit your surrendering your ability to grow.

Patients, we all know the saying “Rome Wasn’t build in a day”. We must accept the fact that there’s only so many hours in a day and only so much one can accomplish alone or with the help of others can complete in the allotted time. As an example, we all want instant gratification for whatever problem or project we’re confronting. Meaningful accomplishments take time. The rewards a well worth the time. They will pay back in time, in many ways. Every challenge we confront and win we gain skills that will help us in our future challenges. Armed with some patients. What would be next?

Next, Identifying The Goal

Patients are one of the tools I’ll need to carry on the journey. I realize visualizing what I’m looking to accomplish is next. What I mean, to see in one’s mind’s eye what I’m looking to accomplish, that’s my goal is. What is the reward I’m expecting in the end?

Whether it be to build or fix a physical object or getting through an emotional issue I might be having. This challenge was creating a blog. Some of my understanding of the great philosophies and philosophers, for whatever we’re trying to accomplish, happiness and contentment are our ultimate goals.

Goals are set to satisfy a need physically or emotionally. Visualizing the advantage of your accomplishment motivates us.

Start From Ideas

I come to learn vision comes from being able to give yourself time to think. Thinking creates ideas. Something that we all are having a problem with, finding the time to just relax and ponder over our thoughts.

To be able to realize what it is we’re truly looking for from our goals.

This in its self is a major challenge of our times. In our society, the overwhelming demands on our time leave little time to be at one with our thoughts. This is what brought me to my next development.

You soon realize that doesn’t happen, in most, if not all situations

That leads us to develop patients, being able to relax one’s thoughts and actions, and create a plan, organize our process into steps to be implemented in a rational sequence, a step by step action that will get us to our completed goal.

Overcoming frustrations and anxiety, not an easy task

It seems that anxiety is built into us, in our “DNA” you can say. I believe it must stem from our primitive beginnings, our will to survive. Knowing that were we just like all the other creatures around us, constantly looking for food, shelter, avoiding predators and hazards.

Frustration, on the other hand, seems to come along with anxiety. In many ways, it easy to see why. We’re anxious to get something or to complete a task, and often become frustrated with mistakes and obstacles we encounter along the way. This brings us back to patients.

Taking the time to research what we need, the knowledge and tools necessary to achieve our goal. It all seems to run in circles, doesn’t it?

There are many more emotions we encounter along the days of our lives. Whether we like it or not we must confront them head-on, if we’re ever going to grow as a person. To find fulfillment and happiness.

And In The End

As I’m writing this it comes to mind that what we’re looking at is considered the seven (7) deadly sins. I don’t know why? The thought of happiness brought me here. As you review them you see their connection to life and the constant quest for contentment and happiness and how they contribute to it. Or keep us from obtaining it.

To conclude let us get to that ultimate goal Happiness.

Oh, the sweet smell of success, that feeling of contentment, the satisfaction of a job well done. That sense of accomplishment, it’s so rewarding and reassuring that we are capable of so much, if we just try.

I hope you see what I have learned, that to get anywhere in life, we all could use a little help sometimes. Be it a teacher, mentor, some directions, or advice. That is what I would hope to accomplish here. and what I mean by Helping Me Help You.

Thanks for reading my post, let me know what you think?

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Jerry Pompilio

Jerry Pompilio, Small business survivor. With over 50 years in the service business. At this stage, it’s time to pay it back. To help others survive it too.