Monday, August 14, 2017

Enjoy Blogging About Self Improvement

By Ruth Carter


All of us have had life experiences. Some of these will have been triumphs, while others may have been the most ghastly mistakes. However, we have learned even from our mistakes. Passing this learning on is fun on many levels, and sending our thoughts out into cyberspace is liberating. It can also be helpful to others who need encouragement or comfort. Blogging about self improvement is satisfying and just might be a lifeline thrown out to a floundering soul.

Everyone likes to talk about themselves. It's a lot harder to get listeners than it is to choose topics to expound upon. With a blog, the fear of boring the listener is lessened, as is the risk of making embarrassing personal revelations. With only a virtual audience, it's easier to relate your own experiences and the things you've learned from them.

It is true that we don't understand ourselves as well as we may think we do. Sometimes writing our thoughts and deep feelings helps us come to a deeper knowledge of our motives, our execution, and our intentions for the future. If we want to improve ourselves, we need to evaluate the past and determine - with real zeal - to do things better the next time around.

On another level, who doesn't like telling others what to do? Even the most insecure of us, without a smidgen of assertiveness, have our hidden strengths and perceptions. We do have something to pass on to others who need to hear it. If we can see warning signs to disastrous steps or behavior that we missed the first time around, maybe we can help others open their eyes and escape a similar fate.

Level three: it just may be that our perspective on life, love, work, parenting, being a son or daughter or sibling, or getting along on not-quite-enough of some vital thing could really help someone else. Doing good is a human instinct that gives great satisfaction, and we may not have enough of that emotion in our lives. In helping others, we get our reward in the inner glow of doing a good deed.

Think of the pivotal moments in your life. Maybe you had a job you loved but a new manager completely changed things. Did you throw a tantrum, suffer in silence, or find a way to adapt? Did leaving a place you had felt comfortable in launch you into a new and better place, or did you quit and learn to live on peanuts? Is a job a job and worth hanging onto, or was marching to your own drum worth the risks?

Don't work? Talk about how to save with coupons, grow superior tomatoes on a vertical support on your tiny balcony, teach your kid to read when the school system fails to, or teach yourself to touch type. Writing a blog is much better typing practice than doing those dumb exercises. When you can do 200 words a minute, you can get a medical transcript job and save for the vacation of your dreams.

Maybe you will become famous, if not rich, through blogging. Think of what could have been if Erma Bombeck had had a PC. Maybe you will build a following online that rivals the newspaper audience of Dear Abby. It's something to consider - and you 'can do it from the privacy of your own home'.




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