New Blog: Why The Hell Are We Here? 🤷‍♂️

Why Are We all Here Today?

Some of you probably came here and wondered, what is this site all about and why the hell is he doing this?

Great questions. Short answer, I’m not totally sure.

The only thing I do know is that I have found a new passion (probably borderline obsession) with the self development and understanding what it means to be successful. Over the past few months, I’ve spent countless hours reading, learning, and consuming content. After awhile I started to realize that I’m slowly gaining some knowledge and wanted to share not only the new stuff, but also some of my own experiences from years past. I’ve lead a pretty interesting life and those experiences helped shape who I am today. A blog seemed like a good place to start!

Who Am I and Why Should You Care?

Before we get too far along, let me tell you a little more about who I am.

If you read the “About This Site” Section on the homepage or the “About Me” page, you’ll get a decent idea of who I am and why I’m here. I’m not claiming to be a guru or master of anything. Frankly, I’m not even a great writer (as I’m sure you’ll see). Just a guy who’s trying to become better and help some people along the way.

Maybe that’s what makes this different. You won’t hear me talk about my great successes that have already happened and say “it’s easy, you can do it too”! You’ll see things as they’re happening. The things that go well & the abysmal failures. We’ll go through it all together. Even many of my stories from the past stem from lessons learned when things went horribly wrong.

Simplify The Learnings & Share The Experiences

My goal, as a part of all this it to take what I learn and cut through all the noise, all the bullshit, and be able to deliver you guys the good stuff. There’s enough things you can go waste your time on, I do NOT want this to be a waste of time. Admittedly, I do like to tell a good story, so I may occasionally be long winded, but it will be for entertainment & enjoyment, not just to hit a word count with nonsense.

What You Can Expect To Get?

Another great question. If I’m being honest, I have a lot of different ideas and types of content I’d like to share with you guys. In the beginning I plan on doing a little bit of everything. A Smorgasbord of success focused content. Just like anything good in life, as time goes on, I plan to refine. See what works best & what people seem to enjoy most.

There will be some areas that I expect to be pretty constant:

• Book Reviews

• Self Development Exercises

• Finance & Investing Lessons Learned

• Thoughts/Reflections on Success in society & how it evolves over time

• Inspiration & motivation to push through tough times

While it might seem like this page is focused on me (don’t count the number of times I’ve said “I” or “me”), I really want this experience to be about documenting my journey and using that to help others. I’ve been fortunate to be a mentor to some individuals over the years and I love it. Being able to take what I’ve learned and help others implement in their lives brings me tremendous joy.

So while this page may be ABOUT me, it’s really for YOU.

What can you do now?

I’m still pretty early on in writing my content, but in the mean time, I’d recommend 2 things.

1. Check out the resources page. Here I list all the books that I’ve read AND recommend on different aspects of success & self-development

2. Request to join “AJ’s Book Club” on Facebook. It’s a growing community of individuals with similar interests in discussing self development books & topics.

• AJ Zampella (aka DJ AJ)