With all that’s going in the world right now I’ve had plenty of time to reflect. Taking a back step from the craziness of my old routine has allowed me to evaluate different aspects of my life. Therefore I figured this would be the perfect time to reflect on my blogging experience so far.
At the start of the semester I was tasked with maintaining this blog for 10 weeks. I’m not afraid to admit that I was unhappy about the whole idea of blogging. Over the years I’ve had plenty of experience blogging for college modules, and I didn’t enjoy any of them. I had always thought blogging was a waste of time and something done by people who lack hobbies. I’ve always been a private person who doesn’t like to share details of my life with others, especially not on the internet for the world to see.
However when setting up this blog at the start of the year I vowed to dedicate more time to the art of blogging. I knew I had failed to buy into the previous blogs so this time would have to be different. From the get go I decided that I would plan all my blogs at the start of the week. I would then be able to write the blog posts whenever I had free time and this process has worked well for me thus far. I’ve mad more of an effort to read other blogs which has helped improve my writing style as well as coming up with new ideas. This was something I failed to do when writing my older blogs. Perhaps the best thing I’ve decided to do was to simply change my attitude. In the past I dreaded writing my blog posts and kept putting off the writing of them. This always led to me having a backlog of work to get through in a short space of time. Now I look forward to writing my blog posts each week as they give me a chance to reflect on my coursework. Doing so has allowed me to spot any issues before they snowball, generally improving my work all round.
To finish up I’d like to take this chance to encourage anyone reading to create their own blog. The positives far outweigh the negatives and you can make genuine improvements to your life.
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