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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  Blogging is just one medium among many. It casts a wide net, but of course it has its drawbacks. The advantage of blogging is that it's ridiculously cheap, globally accessible, and very efficient. You can go from idea to publishing in a matter of hours, and you can reach a lot of people if you commit to mastering the medium. I also like it because my mind is always churning through new ideas anyway, and I enjoy sharing those ideas instantly. |
Here's something that has happened to me with my blog quite often. I'll get into a really positive frame of mind. This will usually be by meditating, or just getting into a "calm" frame of mind with as little ego as possible. All of a sudden I'll get an idea for an article and I'll get really excited about it.
Then, one of two things will happen. Either:
1) I'll jump on my blog and write about it.
or
2) I'll capture the idea in a journal for later use.
If I follow #1, and I click PUBLISH it goes out to the world and there is no going back. Typically, after a few hours I might go out, get into the "real world" and when I'm out there I "return to reality" kind of, being around more Ego based people and my way of thinking returns to more "realistic" thinking. When I get home, sometimes I'll read my post and I'll know exactly what I meant by it at the time, but it either no longer seems so wonderful as it did before, or I wonder if people will misunderstand it. However, because I already clicked Publish, it's too late and it's out there.
If I follow #2, I'll often refer back to my journal and I will read what I wrote and it's all good, except that my thinking has evolved so I would no longer write that journal entry into a blog post. Instead I'll have a better way to say it. However, this "better" way to say it is now subject to the same #1 or #2 above.
The problem with #2 is that my ideas never seem to make it out because it seems like my Ego kicks in and stops them before the real me gets a chance to express itself.
With #1 at least by blogging about it and publishing it, I seem to be able to get a part of me out there before my Ego wakes up and realizes what I've done.
In one such example I had an idea for an article and immediately wrote it. Then the next day I looked at it and I almost felt embarrased because I didn't think the article was that great, but "oh well, it's too late"
I kind of filed it under the "useless blabber" category in my mind.
THEN, a while later I got an email from someone who told me that they found my site and read all my articles and THAT ONE post was the absolute best thing on my site and it was so awesome and they thanked me for writing it.
So then that's what makes me want to write a blog, because I think of so many different things, so many different ideas, but I'm growing so fast that as quickly as I have a Realization, if I don't capture it NOW, the next day I'm past it.
So that is why I *DO* want to blog. However, I'm wondering if maybe I *SHOULD* capture my ideas and sit with them for a while, and think about them, and try to organize them, and try to find the best ways to get them across to people BEFORE I publish them. But then I wonder if that's just my fear talking.
Do you have the same thing Steve? Is this why you haven't written a book yet? Because by the time you write the last chapter of a book you totally want to go back and change chapter 1 again?
One day I even tried writing a whole 30 page eBook in 1 day and I did it, but by the time 6pm rolled around my brain was FRIED. The next day I couldn't publish it or even finish it because I was already a different person.
Is this just that Blogging is so much of a better medium for expressing yourself compared to writnig a book, or is this just a lack of discipline on my part to be able to organize my thoughts into book form?