Want to create something meaningful? Why not start a blog? Why not become a blogger? Creating this blog is one of the best decisions I ever made. After all, my blog is how I earn a living. More important, it’s how I add value to other people’s lives.

So you’re thinking about starting a blog, but you don’t have any idea where to start, right? Guess what—neither did I! Before I created this blog. I wanted to start a blog to communicate my thoughts and express my feelings, but I was overwhelmed with options.

Clueless, confused, and confounded with choices, I had no idea how to start a blog or how to be a blogger. When should I start? How do I register a domain name? What is hosting? Which blogging platform should I use? How do I choose a blog theme? What is a plugin? What should I write about? Heck, I could hardly spell HTML, let alone build a blog!

But good news: it turns out that starting a blog is much easier than you think. I’ve learned a ton of lessons during my early years of blogging and have gone ahead to start and monetize other blogs, and now you can learn from my pain and suffering to avoid much of the tedium involved in setting up a blog.