My 175th day as a Blogger

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Today marks my 175th day as a blogger. It is 174 more than I originally thought I’d achieve. My first post was an appropriate quote by Mandela, “Change your thoughts, change your world” and it has certainly applied to me.

My world has changed because of blogging. This is how:

1. I have conversed with and am in touch with more people now than I was 176 days ago. Blogging for all it reputed to be bad about, has done me loadsa good.

2. I have finally, finally, finally accepted that I hate rankings. It just drives me nuts and causes me to stress myself out because I am clever enough, original enough, objective enough, sarcastic enough and lack the ability to articulate a point of view in an article that’ll catapult me onto the A list. I’ll fall off the “I don’t give a damn” wagon. I will. So in order to retain my sanity I have elected to:

3. Ignore what the A,B,C or any other alpha Lister do and just focus on my thing. Isn’t realisation or hearing the penny drop a wonderful thing?! It took 174 days for the sodding brain cell to accept what I’d been telling it since blogging day +2. I was being obstinate, pig headed and arrogant enough to think I could luck myself into a brand new concept that nobody had ever ever stumbled on or debated about before. Fool!

4. So, having given up on becoming #1 at Technorati I have set myself this goal:

” Always be a first-rate version of myself instead of a second-rate version of someone else.” by Judy Garland, actress

5. I have learnt how to appreciate looking forward to contact from you. To all intent and purpose I had become a social hermit. I was pushing away from human contact for a very long while. Then I started a forum but it was when I started blogging 175 days ago that I wondered why on earth I’d never blogged before. I began to hold conversations with you all and that is something worth cherishing and looking forward to each day.

6. I have learnt that swearing in posts does not necessarily make me a cool dude. In fact not swearing at all is cool. Very cool. and it proves that my expensive education has paid off albeit in one area alone!

7. I have learnt to link. Not completely all there is to know under the sun about linkng but I have learnt that getting links to the site is a very good thing. The more links there are to the site, the more conversations I can have.

8. You who challenge the content of what I post are doing me and everyone else a power of good. You are opening up the debate about stuff. It doesn’t have to be only vitally important matters that get debated in my blogs. Humdrum stuff too can provide a learning experience to someone who never knew before about whatever simple thing it is being debated. So keep challenging.

9. Putting aside political correctness in posts is easier than I thought. It makes life in blogoland so simple!

10. Creativity and motivation walk hand in hand. One needs the other. I need you.