Making sense of it all.
Why Blog? Writing was never my strong skill and only now a few decades into my life finding it a powerful way of communication, just as it is starting to lose its significance on the World Wide Web. What am I saying? Writing is losing its significance? Yes, it is my realization that writing is now getting diluted with the advance of publishing tools and software designed to spin written contents so what writing can be taken as a genuine content and what is not so genuine? This question requires time and skilled reading or well developed intuitive “BS Detector” to determine on the fly, hence my favor of vlogs where a person has the opportunity to make up where his/her writing skill may lack of the desired expression.
Yet, today I had a strong realization about the higher value of blogging when I delivered a Hi9 coach session with a client. This Hi9 tool is designed to help live a personal energy conscious life and manage personal energy state using live coach session when needed. The situation I was in just as I woke up, was an unusual one considering the quantified energy pattern that showed up on my iPhone from a client. Nonetheless I went for it anyways and by the time we finished the micro coach session, the realization on my end was that blogging can be not only therapeutic but also a powerful self-expression to carry our best thinking, capture our wisdom so others can benefit from it. Our blogs have it be an inspiration, an assurance or some positive experience that our writing produce for another human being, worth the time and effort invested writing a blog. My client was advised to write down new view of her situation as it arise in within the next 48 hours or so and if she likes it, publish it so other people around the world facing similar circumstance can find it, make a good use of it. Perhaps she can connect with someone who found a better point of view on this classic yet troublesome problem and her blog is simply serving them as a connecting point.
In my case I supplement my blog with a vlog (Blog + video=vlog) to deliver the sincere factor. Pointing the camera to myself does not bother me as it used to when I was a young man since I have practically recorded my children’s life as an inspired parent and in the process I learned to give them the opportunity to see their parents also later in life from their adult perspective not only relying on the fading memory of a child. The voice alone not always enough, so I make the point to have my face in my vlogs. Recently on the Quantified Self forum I posted a vlog with images and my voice without my face and the feedback I received was a total disaster. One person wrote a very eloquent expression why he thought I was insincere, mistaking my voice recorded under alpha brainwave states. (It is the state between awake and sleep-meditative state like). Since this person withdrew his statement when I posted a vlog in reply and he apologized once he understood the circumstance of the first vlog but the mistake was mine also. Therefore I make a point to supplement my blogs with vlogs as often as I can for the reasons I described here.
Summary: Blogging can be very powerful opportunity to distill our best thinking and with that create a connection point with others, facing similar situations and either inspire them or give them the opportunity to inspire us to see better view of the given situation on hand. For those who are fortunate to have tools like iPhone to make vlogs on the fly, I encourage them to do so to further serve their writing’s sincere value and help the reader distinguish between “quantity based-commercialized” blog and a sincere blog that may only have a single view but that translates into a HUMAN connection that worth the time and effort invested in creating the blog.
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