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Blogging for personal growth

Add comment February 7th, 2006

Steve Pavlina has a new article on Blogging for Personal Growth, which I’ll just touch on a few points here. Read the rest of the article at Steve’s blog, where he talks about how blogging may be one of the best tools of personal growth.

• Courage - sharing yourself publicly builds courage

• Giving Hope - what you blog about can give others hope
• Motivation - helping others can be a better motivation than just helping yourself
• Self-Assessment - blogging can help you develop a more honest self-assessment
• Self Esteem - helping others builds your own self esteem

Being down about Blogger being down

3 comments February 7th, 2006

Over the weekend there were a few outages by Blogger, which affected most blogspot.com blogs. This was, naturally, of great concern to many. However, during the outages, I was being kept updated via RSS feeds from Blogger’s Status page. I had found this page some time ago, and thought it would be a good idea to subscribe to the RSS feeds, so that I could remain automatically updated of any outages or changes. I was happy to be receiving updates about the outage as they occurred.

Military service for young people

3 comments February 7th, 2006

Scot wrote about his son becoming an American soldier, something which I thought was good writing, ‘capturing’ me and dragging me into his perception of the events. It made me feel like I was there. In one of his comments he wrote, “When it comes to teaching young people etiquette, the armed services wins hands down.“

This is something I agree with wholeheartedly. However, not just with etiquette, but also with respect and discipline. The young people of today, the teenagers and the early 20-somethings, they generally and mostly have no understanding of respect, or with the discipline that is needed to become successful adults. Successful in becoming valued members of society.