By Kat Wu
A month ago, I was brainstorming very diligently to come up with a worthwhile project before I start school again in the Fall. While it might be a good idea to just rest up before the torture of law school begins, I wasn't about to just idle for 4 more precious months away like I did after graduating. I started to work for a home deco company and was told to update the company's blog. Little did I know, that was the beginning of something very curious for my 23 years of existence. I mean, everyone's heard of blogs, weblogs, RSS and all that good stuff, but it was really something different trying to keep one yourself. Decidedly, I would devote wholeheartedly the time I have before school starts to blog, blog, and blog. There are just some benefits to blogging that's very apparent and applicable to me, and I'd like to share them with you.
Blogging has all but not limited to the following benefits:
1. It forces your brain to work at all times
Since I graduated from college a year ago, my writing has turned rusty. And it's not just my writing that turned rusty, it's my brain-my train of thought-that's gotten even muddier! Now that I have blogs to update, my brain is constantly on the go looking for ideas, absorbing information, filtering information so I could juice up my next blog entry! You're brain is just that much sharper when you keep it running.
2. It forces you to write
Practicing writing is something that I find really hard to do just out of self discipline, yet writing is so important especially in the world today with increasing channels of communication involving writing, I mean less and less people are calling each other now, but shooting each other emails and texts instead. Achieve that clarity in your writing by blogging. WordPress and many other blog hosts provide resources to perfecting and improving your writing. Why not use 'em?
3. It forces you to read
Blogging not only forces you to write, it also forces you to read. And as we know, reading is always good for you! When you hit a writer's block, or simply for the sake of reading other interesting blogs, you're reading a ton of information. To be honest, I don't think I've ever read so much even when in school.
4. It makes you more observant of the world around you
Your surroundings is the single most abundant source of inspiration you have, completely free of charge. You start to notice more details and angles in the world around you. No kidding, I started to take notice of small details of the streets and the people, not willing to let a single light of inspiration pass.
5. Network
I have just became serious about blogging and have yet to meet more people, but what I've learned from reading other blogs' comments is that for the most part people provide constructive criticism and are willing to help one another out. Some even become cherished friends through this platform. Think about it, it's such an easy to way to get to know people who have similar interests and hobbies because our blogs are categorized and tagged.
6. It's a good resume builder
If you keep a good quality blog with good substance, you could potentially spice up your resume with it. The best part is that blog keeping is sort of versatile; you need to be somewhat well rounded enough to be able to keep up a substantial blog, starting from decent writing skills to digital editing skills and a certain amount of social skills. These are all great indicators to your employer that you have what it takes to succeed at the workplace.
7. Get in touch with yourself
This is a chance for you to get to know yourself, understand what your likes and dislikes are, what your hobbies and passion may be, what your working ethic and habits are, and most importantly, your way of thought processing. When I'm blogging, I'm forced to come up with an opinion about stuff, forced to dissect that thought and analyze how and why I feel this way about something. I would say the blogging experience would be close to something like meditation or Zen.
8. Keep up with current events
Well, you don't want to be left behind when it comes to keeping up with fresh ideas that would potentially be an incredible blog entry, so there's an incentive to read up more on current events. I hate reading news on a regular basis, but a lot of times I would stumble across posts related to current events, and automatically get updated on the latest news.
9. It makes you feel more tech savvy
Notice I said blogging makes you "feel" more tech savvy, because even if you don't really get that much more tech savvy, at least you certainly feel more savvy. I'm almost certain that it would up your internet, html, SEO and other knowledge base because you'd be preoccupied with prettying up your blog, directing traffic to your site and much more.
10. Gives you the greatest sense of achievement
The sense of achievement you get when you finished your first post is simply...amazing. I'm sure there are many other things out there that are considered more achieving, but the sense of accomplishment I get after writing each entry is unmatched by many other achievements.
With all of this said, I'm about to devote my summer into blogging my brains out.
Thanks for reading
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