One year and 100 posts later, we ask: why keep blogging?

Why blog? As Paws for Reflection celebrates the 100^th blog post, Paws asks what keeps us going, and why do we blog?

If people think blogging is easy, they are wrong. It’s a lot of hard work. It takes a lot of time. While Paws for Reflection finds the ideas are endless, researching them, and making sure sources are credible, takes a tremendous amount of time.

Paws takes pause to share a few of the reasons we continue to blog.

• Meet new people
• Connect, connect, connect
• Learn more info about cats – there’s ton to learn
• Meet fellow cat people, worldwide
• Learn about cats and pets worldwide
• Establish a reputation as a credible cat and pet blogger
• Branding
• Did I say learn?
• Provides for my cats better – I’ve become more educated
• Become a better cat parent
• Look to the future – maybe someone will become interested in my work
• Develop a future book audience – I have a few ideas
• Gives me a reason to keep up with changing and evolving technology
• Sharing photography
• Creating better videos
• Keeping up with social media trends
• It’s interesting – I’m learning
• I’m challenged
• I’ve met a boat load of fellow cat people
• Sharing information with others – maybe I can help them learn
• Melt my journalistic, public relations skills with today’s media market
• Help people understand cats better
• Work for the betterment of cats – seems people love them or hate them
• Learn about cat behavior
• Help people understand the problems related to cat overpopulation
• Educate people why they should adopt from shelters
• Learn about various cat breeds
• Go to cat shows
• Spread the word about cat diseases and what can be done to help
• Share info about dental issues often downplayed
• Let people know where they can turn when their cat passes over the Rainbow Bridge
• Share that it’s ok to grieve
• Write about best practices and holistic medicine
• Share why cats can be beneficial to your health
• Write about fun stuff
• Post funny photos
• Improve my photography
• Post funny videos
• Improve my video skills
• Cats are independent minded, they are their own selves. Perhaps we, humans could learn from them.
• Write political spoofs – these are fun
• Share Lenny’s story. Rescued at one week in a brush pile, he has a lot to teach us
• Inform people about cat legislation
• Cover the cat, bird controversy
• Teach people about Trap, Neuter and Return
• Write about the misunderstood feral cats – they have their place
• Share stories about the human/animal bond
• Learn about therapy animals
• Find out why cats purr
• Gives me an excuse to read lots of cat books from cat experts
• It’s a reason to try some new wonderful cat related products
• Takes me down memory lane with the KitKat Klock
• Gives me an excuse to connect with a whole host of awesome cat people

And of course, I’d like to make a second income from this, but when I look at the list, there are a whole host of other reasons to blog than money.

Did I say the list was endless? It is. Let me know some other topics, issues, you’d like to see added to the list.

Do you have a blog? What is your motivation for spending countless hours to keep it up? Please share your story.