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.

Since true self-awareness is rare, we gain valuable personal insight by writing our deepest feelings or constructive thoughts down. We may find that our past actions were motivated by hidden desires or resentments: maybe that hated boss reminded us of nit-picking Aunt Gilly and we just now recognize the fact. If we want to improve ourselves - and counsel others - we need to evaluate the past with objective eyes and determine with zeal to change the future.

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.

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.

Think about the fun of telling how you coped with a new manager at work who came in like a bulldozer, disrupted the good old ways (that were working just fine, thank you), and didn't seem to appreciate your sterling qualities. You may have been the stone in the managerial shoes, or you may have quietly bided your time until the upstart came upset. Conversely, you may have realized that things would never be the same but a job is a job and done your best to adapt.

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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