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Staying Positive

The help that everyone needs

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken

— Oscar Wilde.

Realising.

Everyday should be seen as a blank canvas. A new day, a new beginning. Forget the bad day you had, or the bad week even, and focus on the good you have in your life. I wish that’s how I thought before, all the days I spent allowing the negativity to eat away at me. I ask myself this question every now and then. Why did I think it was normal to look at myself the way I did?

I understand that everyone has their insecurities, but self-worth is much more important and needs to be valued more. I became caught in this cycle that I started doubting who I was as a person, I valued other people instead of myself. Looking back now, it all seems pointless, comparing myself to every girl I came across for what reason? It didn’t change what I looked like or who I am, it just made me hate who I was.

Having an unhealthy relationship with myself was the worst, but also the best thing that happened to me. Once I came to the realisation that I was in a toxic realationship with myself, I needed to start looking after my mind and my body.

Realising your strength and your beauty is such a powerful thing. It doesn’t matter how other people look, or what other people think about you. All that matters is yourself. Self love is something I have wanted for the longest time, and now that I am slowly getting there. I am becoming the woman I’ve always wanted to be. Strong, caring, loving.

Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

  • Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
  • Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

  • Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
  • What topics do you think you’ll write about?
  • Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
  • If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.

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