Thursday, August 10, 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.

Level one: we all like to talk about ourselves. Of course, not many other people want to listen to us. A blogger has a captive audience, if there is one at all. (And if there isn't, we may never know it, right?) We also might benefit from sending our message out in other ways.

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.

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.

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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