Why I’m not a blogger

     The first clue that I’m not a blogger is that I never write in my blog.  I’m old, tired and just not in the mood to take on another task in my life.  I used to do a newsletter every week, but then, even though I cherish having so many subscribers, I realized it just wasn’t helping to pay the bills.  That is all that I seem to think about these days.  I used to sell a lot of Polar heart rate monitors, but then that business slowed down and I honestly don’t know why.  If you have any idea why, please email me at howtobefit@aol.com, because I would really like to know.  So I quickly regrouped, apologized to my subscribers and this will be the second week that with no newsletter.  I started to think that maybe I could be a blogger.  I have three blogs and it is easy to write something - if you have something to say that people want to read.  That’s the real key.  I did a search in Google for the best blogs and Forbes had quite a good list of categories.  None of them were health and fitness, so I tried sports and saw that they list five of what they considered the best.  The list included www.badjocks.com - Where COPS Meets SPORTSCENTER - and I could never write the stuff they do.   Another was a Yankee Fan Club blog, but it hasn’t been updated since May 6th, 2007.  Maybe no one really cares about health and fitness blogs after all, so what would be the point of writing one.

I hope that you have seen Field of Dreams.  Rembember the line, “If you build it, they will come”.  Well I decided to use that philosophy and added four message boards to my website - they work for WebMD - but after about a month, no one has come yet.   I am going for a run and will think about whether I am a blogger or not and maybe it will come to me.  I wish I knew what the telltale signs were…