I was prodding my lifelong friend during the last year to get on the blogging bandwagon with me but he continued to state that he didn't see much need for it in his life, nor his potential to contribute anything worthwhile to the Internet blogging community. However, that changed recently after he realized that there were a fair number of insights he had about his business field that could be useful to certain people.

And so his life coaching business blog was e-born after many months of indicisive cyber-labor. I'm glad he did this, as we all have something that could be beneficial to someone, if even our-self.

You see, one can go about spouting out the benefits of blogging and describe how a blog is a shortened moniker for a web-log, or weblog. And professionals can go about stating that web-logs are a network of blogging communities, or rings, and so on and so forth. But no matter how the term is coined by Internet blog guru's I like to view my personal blog at www.andrebest.com as a different beast with a different purpose.

Prior to andrebest.com I solely focussed on my MLM blog at one of my other websites which focuses on this home-based business concept but I found that it was way too restrictive for all the thoughts that were jostling around this ol' noggin of mine. I was fine writing about home-based business stuff as it relates to MLM, but I also wanted to write about LIFE. And since that is a much broader topic, to be sure, it needed a much wider spectrum of potential coverage.

And so andrebest.com was born in the summer of 2005.

What I've learned since starting andrebest.com is that it turned out to be an online 'diary' of sorts and even though this was a rather unexpected outcome of my blogging effort with this website I am rather pleased that it turned out as it did.

Many blogging guru's tout that people should get into blogging so as to improve links to their other sites and to add to their content pages online and to monetize their website traffic by advertising on their blog. Well, that's all fine and dandy and true to a certain extent, but there is this secondary outcome of these efforts that I've discovered for those who are more serious about the intent of blogging in the first place.

You see, when one likes to write and share information and 'help' others this person is going to experience the added benefit of releasing this information out of their mind and putting it onto e-paper, so to speak. Even though one's external intent may be to improve their online 'business', the inner benefit is in my opinion a cathartically therapeutic one and can perhaps be even more beneficial to the blogger herself.

Stating this another way, have you noticed how you feel better when you 'come out' through verbal expresssion with whatever is bugging you about a situation, a person, or an event? How about when you feel all stressed inside and you go out into nature, or call a good friend to chat about your stress, or take a warm shower to cool off? Wouldn't you agree that all of these actions amount to a beneficial release of sorts because what is inside comes out cathartically through exterior actions?

Well, in my opinion, writing online via a blog is no different. It's a release of information -- be it an opinion, a fact, a neat tidbit, a diatribe, or a simple commentary about (fill-in-the-blank).

Whenever I write for my blog I make sure that I have something worthwhile to share for you, my readers, so that I too can have this release via this intrinsic sharing I'm undertaking via my words onto a webpage. And because of this I find when I have thoughts in my head that they are there for a reason, that is, they're wanting expression outside of me. And, voila!, another entry is born at andrebest.com for people around the world to read and hopefully glean useful insights from.

I would wholeheartedly encourage anyone even considering the possibility of starting their own blog, or even pondering the usefulness of such an endeavor, to start blogging right away. Just make sure that you are a person who likes to write, likes to share, and that you are someone who continues to have many thoughts or insights throughout your days that pertain to your blog's subject matter.

You see, after a while a blog kind of becomes a labor of love. That's because there is a fair amount of 'labor' involved with writing, so you better 'love' adding to your blog on a continuous basis over the years.

Again, everyone has something to share. Everyone has experiences and useful information that someone, somewhere, can benefit from.

And as I explained through my personal cathartic experience since starting andrebest.com that it is actually beneficial to release this information out into the world, it only makes sense to take advantage of an avenue that allows for all of this sharing and cathartic releasing to occur.

And, hey, if one can make money at it or become known as an expert in a chosen blog subject that's only an added bonus that I think no one would complain about.

So if you're someone who genuinely enjoys writing on a chosen subject(s) of a personal or business nature, do yourself (and the online blogging community) a favor and get your personal blog going today.

Okay, that's the end of my story about how I came to be here at Blogaholics Anonymous.

Who wants to go next?...

Written by Andre Best
President, Ultimate Results, Inc.
http://www.andrebest.com
'Learn About Life From Another Perspective'

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