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The art of slimming - the art of blogging, or does blogging make YOU slim?

You must admit mine is an unusual slimming blog as I talk about the art of living a lifestyle rather than an emphasis on calories in and out.   I talk about the art of striving for personal creative satisfaction as being not only compatible with the art of slimming but for myself as being essential to it.

So today I am actually just going to talk about the art of blogging or web site building, both highly satisfying for me and I know many of my friends are either expert at this and striving constantly to improve on their skills or are they may be just getting a web presence ‘off the ground’, I was sure this would be an topic that might interest them as well as me.I’ll share recent moves I have made to try to improve my blogs Here are some of the tips I am trying to follow.

1/ Know your topic and be unique. 

I try not to copy other successful formulas, I just try to be myself, create posts about things I feel like talking about and have some information I can share based on experience.  It’s so much easier to write in my 60’s than at any other stage of my life, if I hear a subject there is a memory I have associated with that that I usually would love to chat about, so my blog just flow in an unrestrained way, just like talk.  For me that’s ‘my style’, unforced, not copied, about things I know and am interested in.  Anyone who loves to talk or write can do that, no special skills or formula.

2/ Two different lots of advise here, that conflict with each other. 
One being to proof read and edit, edit and edit before you publish and the other is to not wait until you are perfect before you have a web presence, because you never will be perfect.

I do proof read and edit, though my dyslexia is so bad, typos slip thorough, I am indebted to friends and readers who help me improve by pointing out these mistakes so I can correct them. If I waited until I have overcome dyslexia and was certain there would never be a typo in my work, I would never utter a word in print.  I personally would have never made some of the most important friends in my life if I had waited to be perfect before going to print.

3/ allow people to get to know you, discover your personality. 

For sure we need to protect private areas of our life but let the inner you, your personality shine through.  Think of the webs you read and enjoy, the authors voice has a personality and it matters not if they are aiming to climb a mountain, scrub oil off a path, or arrange flowers, there is an attitude to life that comes through in their posts that appeals to their readers and that’s why some bloggers and web sites can command huge readerships.  I greatly admire writers of wit and I would love to learn to use humour (I’m basically a serious subject writer), and I plan to strive to learn how I can ‘lighten’ my posts.  I am still learning to be a good blogger and it’s important to me, I have so much I want to share.

4/ Give your readers something for free. 

I know when I am too busy to read many blogs, being offered a chance to win a $50. Voucher can cause me to open a blog I might otherwise have ignored that day, so I have been experimenting for a week now with this idea of ‘what can I give my readers’.  My criteria was that it should not cost me money nor time other than the money and time I already spend to create the web sites and blogs I already own.  All web site owners could brain storm this one as what might work for my blogs and web sites will be different to what others might be able to do. 

My web site host had a forum option that is easy to use. I added this as my first step in being able to offer free services, for my readers.

Once you have an on line presence, you may want to be found by search engines.List your sites manually with search engines.  Your web host company is the first place to look for information about placing your web site in search So far I have not paid for web site placement as my outer world journey that I share in my  ‘Gone Bush Blog’ in my gray-nomad web site is a hobby blog and this my personal journey is shared mostly by friend contacts.
 
One thing I know, I am ‘hooked on blogging’, I love it and I love sharing my inner world, and my outer world journeys through the medium of blogging. Blogging satisfies me emotionally more than food can.

What creative tools have you been able to harness to aid you in you in being or moving towards being naturally slim?

Is blogging slimming for you? 
 


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sharon link
08/25/2009 4:02pm

I find a lot of the Spark People quotes to be motivating and inspiring.

Kathy that painting is amazing, so beautiful

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Jadey link
08/27/2009 6:38pm

I am so glad you are hooked on blogging babe cause you are great at it. You are such a supportive and positive influence in my life. Thanks !

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kathy shell link
08/27/2009 7:20pm

:-). Jadey, you sure know how to make a lady beam with pleasure. Thank you for those beautiful words. xxx.

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