A Remedy for Blogger Inferiority Complex
ProBlogger Blog Tips: Yesterday I wrote about the problem of blogger inferiority complex and how often as bloggers we can limit our potential by defining ourselves negatively.
Today I want to get a little more constructive and suggest a remedy for this common problem. In doing so I want to help those of us who struggle with a negative self view to make a mind-shift in our thinking.
How do you become more positive in the way that you think about yourself and your blog?
Today I want to suggest two starting points in tackling this problem. Tomorrow I’ll wrap up this mini-series with a third.
1. Identify What You Have:
There’s nothing wrong with aspiring to be something that you’re not, learn something that you don’t know or achieve something that you’ve not achieved before - however sometimes when we’re focusing upon what we don’t have we lose sight of the very thing that could be the key to us going to the next level - what we do have.
When I was in my late teens and early 20’s I spent a lot of time worrying about what I didn’t have and comparing myself to others. As I look back on the way that I lived my life at this time I realized that the motivation for many of the things that I did was that I wanted to be like someone else. The result was a complete mess. I ended up spending so much of my time…
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- Published:
- 01 May 2008 / 06:02 AM
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- Problogging
Coffee Break
Business and Blogging: I’m afraid I only have time for a quick coffee break with you this week - the movers have come and gone, the car has been picked up to be shipped and Goodwill has carted away any remaining possessions that didn’t make the cut for this move.
I am typing away in an empty apartment - sitting on the floor with nothing but my internet connection and my coffee pot.
As soon as my husband pries my fingers away from the keyboard, we’ll be boarding a plane to our new home in New York City.
Soon, I’ll be blogging from the Big Apple.
It will take a week or so for us to get internet access - but I am already searching out wi-fi spots.
So, enjoy the following thought-provoking articles, and be glad that you aren’t living out of a box!!
Lately, Laura has been writing about the potential of Twitter. Chris at The Transfer is taking an even longer view of the potential of Twitter as a customer feedback tool. I think that blogging still has a lot of untapped potential as a customer feedback tool, and I enjoyed reading Chris’ vision of Twitter in the Marketer’s toolbox in his post Twitter: A Tool to Grasp that Elusive Customer Feedback?
This guest post by James Chartrand writing on Copyblogger encourages bloggers to enhance their relationships with their readers (customers) by creating an emotional connection in his post: Give More Than Words for Extreme Reader Response.
Anita Campbell at SmallBizTrends points…
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- Published:
- 27 Apr 2008 / 10:00 AM
- Category:
- Problogging