Why I’ve Come to Love Blogging

I’ve really come to love blogging and bloggers.  I started to blog this past spring — almost six months ago.  A friend encouraged me to try it — I’d like it!  So, I created a simple WordPress blog and started out on an unforeseen, but incredible journey.  By a stroke of luck I was introduced to Bea Fields, who facilitates the course “Become a Blogging Maniac.”  That was in April and I must say the first couple of weeks I felt I was in a class where Russian was spoken and I don’t speak Russian.  My fear of technology often got in the way.

But a funny thing happened.  I became incredibly energized and felt my brain was firing on all cylinders.  All of a sudden I was a certified member of the social media world — blogging, Twittering, connecting on LinkedIn.  I had passed through a door and would never look back at the “old me,” who scoffed at people who wrote blogs (or blobs, as my husband still calls them).  Soon I abandoned my old website in favor of a blog where everything about my business would be housed.

But most of all, Write Speak Sell would become the focal point of my thoughts about communicating ideas, which is at the heart of what I have done professionally for over 30 years.  It’s liberating to say what you really think and believe.

I’ve written a longer piece, “Why I Blog and What it Stands For,” which Bea Fields kindly published on her blog this week, that expands on my thoughts about blogging and truth and authenticity in communication.  I didn’t set out to change the world when I started blogging, but I hope I can play a small role in making things better.