Write away: Blogging for beginners: what should you write about?

Only you can really answer that question.

That said, the answer is as relevant as the answer to your career choices? Most people who choose to do what they were never designed to do, fail to do much that matters. Oh, of course, life is often like Joseph's dungeon, where we end up in spite of all our best intentions, yet, even then such dark moments are not about diverting our life course down another road. Indeed, it is in such dungeons that God lights up the dark to enflame the passion of our lives.

Who knows how relevant you will be for all your struggles and what a difference you could make for having worked through the issues that stand between you and victory?

We are but pie in the sky, empty clouds without water and hollow vessels, if our conversations are merely the product of reason. No amount of reason or learning can ever substitute for experience. Thus it is all about experiencing the heart that beats for this world, because we can only truly bring life once our hearts are ignited by the zeal of God.

To be more specific to blogging, it generally makes most sense to find your niche and to persist in that until it works. Methinks that over-spiritualisation of life issues, often detracts from practical solutions. It rarely helps to fret over what you should do or to agonise over your choices until balloons rise, clouds break or the tides turn. Do whatever God places in your hands to do and persist in that - God will meet you there.

Chances are really good that if you follow your passion, it is because God put that passion there, which predicts that He will bring it to its own fulfillment. But even if you are on the wrong road, the road you are on will not represent one wasted moment, for God is a master at restoring all the years of the locusts. Every single life experience will make a difference, in time, if you persist with Him.

So find your focus and work it. Don't try to be all things to all people. Don't even try to be popular, as such, for the chances are you will end up going around in circles. Rather decide on a course, then, like Jesus, set your eyes aflint towards your objective.

Of the same Jesus, let me say that He never had many objectives. Rather, He had a narrow focus, which the writer to the Hebrews reduces to: "sacrifices for sin thou would'st not have, but a body you prepared for me, for in such sacrifices you have no pleasure - I have come to do your will Oh God."

If you persist down your road, you will (I promise you) find others who relate to you. You will gain a following, because a soul that pursues a cause ceases to be a follower and starts to be a leader - of opinions, trends, ideas and concepts. Sure your followers will be touch-and-go at times, but keep going and stay your course anyway. Never grow weary in doing well, for in due time you will reap if you faint not (Galatians 6:9).

Obviously you should choose an area where you already have a certain amount of knowledge, or at the very least have the skills and yen to develop a specialisation. That is the key to your energy and passion, and that is what will carry through to your work until you touch your world.

However, that too obliges you to stick to a narrow specialisation and to grow in stature within that brief. Malcolm Gladwell described "The Tipping Point" as a golden ratio. He contends that anything pursued for more than 10,000 hours will tip and come into its own. The Beatles are cited in His book - He describes how they did nightly gigs in Germany and steadily built therir audience until they were invited to a gig in the Cavern, Liverpool - it was a tipping point that changed the course of popular music forever.