How to Write a Blog- Part III
Welcome back. Let’s get into it.
Next reason- I’m too busy. If this is your reason, I will refer you to these fine resources;
https://vimeo.com/1026981384/3fe78813a3
https://www.silentriverkungfu.ca/i-ho-chuan-news/2024/11/19/honesty-and-time
https://www.silentriverkungfu.ca/i-ho-chuan-news/2024/11/19/time
Last, and this is “the big one”- I have nothing positive to write about. Again, there are two reasons for this one.
Liken this to “once, long ago, I wrote a blog and I felt like I got in trouble for being honest. Now I shy away from writing anything”. Okay, this one is tricky. Well, tricky if you’re not keeping things in perspective.
No one gets to live a life with only positivity. We all have bad days. Sometimes a bad week. Heck, bad years! But again, we have the ability to manipulate our surroundings. Does that mean we can control the people around us? No. But we control ourselves, our own thoughts and actions. If we don’t know how, we have the ability to learn.
When it comes to blogging about something negative, you need to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. We react strongly when emotions are involved. We are opinionated. But, if someone did us wrong, or made us mad, or unjustly stole our last piece of pie, remind yourself that we ALL think that we are the one who is in the right. Including the person who wronged you!
How does this help? Well, think about why the other person felt the way they felt, did what they did. Say you write a blog. In it you vent about something. Okay, fair. We all need to do that. But what did you do about it? If all you did was vent off steam, identify what is wrong and unjust in the world, did you really do right by yourself? Or did you stop too short and left yourself in a state of aggravation, frustration and general unpleasantness that will slowly eat at you, alter how you think, feel, act?
If you never took it past this place, then yes, we would have reached out to you and told you that you needed to rethink what you had written.
Get it out. Identify the negatives, but then do something positive with it. My pie is gone. Woe is me. Now I’m hungry. Wait, I have half a dozen apples wilting on my counter. I’ll make me another pie! And in doing so, I’ll feel better about not wasting those apples! AND become a better baker! Learn how to make my own crust! Share my pie, bring happiness to the world! Oh oh, maybe I could share it with the fella who stole it in the first place, alleviate his/her hunger, make them go oh, I stole his pie, and now he’s sharing this one? Wow, is that my heart growing three sizes? Did this make ME want to do something kind for someone else?
Don’t stop at the problem. Continue through to a solution. Make sure that every cloud has a silver lining, even when you have to create it yourself. Your perception can shift, which can change your whole outlook. When your outlook is positive, you tend to notice the positivity that surrounds you. What’s more, you tend to create the positivity around you.
If you stop, only venting, offering no solution, giving yourself nothing to move forward with, then heck yes, we’ll call you out on it. Because we want you to thrive, not wilt. We’ll protect you as much as we can.
