Welcome to the wonderful world of blogs - Part V/a

In this and the next post, I will talk about the positives and negatives of blogging, as it applies to the blogger.

Experts advice to have positive attitude to succeed in life. Highlight only the positives, is what they say. While I agree that the postives should be highlighted, negatives should not be ignored completely. The same applies to most part in this case too, some of the negatives are far more important than the positives. First, let's talk about good things blogging bring to the 'blogger' - at the moment; I am not concerned, at this moment, about how blogging benefits the audience, but the author himself. needless to say, all these are my own ideas, and hence you may find it difficult to agree with them all...Most of these are just points, I won't expand on any of these at the moment. But, i just want to tell you one thing before anything else. Through this blog, for the first time in my life, I am publishing anything at all to the whole world. I feel enormously powered, proud and want to shout out to the entire world, that 'Hear everybody, I have something to say!'

Here are the Positives, I could think of...

1. Improves your self-confidence and self-esteem.
2. Helps one to self-critical.
3. Improves your thought process and also be able to think independently.
4. Helps organise oneself.
5. Improves your observation capabilities. It is especially important for me in my profession too, as a tester.
6. Helps us feel important in so big a world, where we all, sometime or other, feel insignificant.
7. Self-pride about one's own creation.
8. Self-discovery. Uncover your hidden talents and be ready to get surprised. Improve your self-awareness.
9. Helps you identify with other people. You won't typically write anything up without considering how your target audience will like it, or accept it. So, you start valuing others in your own life and learn to care for them.
10. Motivate others into doing something similar.
11. Reach out to people and help them out. Like I said in one of previous posts, there is nothing greater than joy of sharing in this world.
11. Helps practice in specific areas like teaching, counselling and writing. Helps shape you up into a whole new career, possibly!
12. Brand 'YOU'. Creates self-identity. People start identifying you with what you write on. If you continue to excel in this, it has the potential to raise you to a new pedestal and label you as an expert. This of course, won't happen overnight. It takes time, so be patient. At the very least, you can put a link up in your resume and talk to your prospective employers more intelligently! I confess, I definitely have this in mind always as one of my priority items! That is also the reason, I talked about this point more:-)


We will talk about the negatives in the next post...