Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Blogging About Self Improvement Is Fun

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.

On one level, there is the fact that we all like talking about ourselves. Doing so to friends or family may be hard. We may be alone, or they may be easily bored. In cyberspace, we have a captive audience - and we won't know if no one is listening. There are other ways that sending our messages out benefit us, too.

There's another benefit to expressing our deepest feelings and insights. It often helps us clarify our thoughts if we write them down and bring them into coherent order. Since we don't necessarily understand ourselves, the discipline of organizing thoughts and drawing useful conclusions can be enlightening for us as well as others.

Level two: people like telling others what to do. Even if we are insecure, inside our own personal bubble we feel like we do have valuable insights to pass on to other lost souls. If we look back over our lives, we see valuable lessons learned or disastrous leaps taken when we now can see warning signs we missed at the time.

Our perspective will be necessarily unique, but all of us have had to deal with growing up, loving and losing, being a child or a parent, holding down a job or carrying responsibility, or living economically. If we can help someone else along the road, why not try? it feels good to help; the inner glow of virtue may be the only reward we get, but it's a great feeling.

Had a bad experience at work? Think of the satisfaction of telling about it - in order to illustrate a self-improvement point - with names changed to protect the guilty. Maybe you successfully thwarted a bad manager or wrong business decision, or maybe you just learned that grousing was counter-productive. Maybe you decided that a job in the hand was worth putting up with a certain level of disappointment. Whatever the deal was, if you were able to cope, your experience might help someone facing a similar situation.

Not in the workplace? Blog on parenting, growing tomatoes on the balcony, making the day better for those you encounter in your daily routine, or teaching yourself to type. Writing an internet blog is much more fun than doing those boring exercises on the typing tutorials. If you or your readers get up to speed, there are medical transcript jobs out there that make a nice supplement to a fixed income.

If you have a real message, you owe it to the world to send it out. If you just feel like shooting an arrow at random, do it. You never know, you may hit the mark. When you get comments or questions, you can respond and real dialog may occur. Reading the comments of others will stimulate new thoughts of your own. You may be the next virtual 'Dear Abby' or 'This Old House' guy. Go for it!




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