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BLOGTASTIC: Your attitude will show up on your blog
You’ve probably heard that “you only get one chance to create a good first impression.” It’s hard to dispute that fact in life. It is especially true on your blog.
With your blog, you are constantly on-stage before the world.
When you publish a blog, you are always creating first impressions. Your blog serves as your entry point into a worldwide networking event that runs 24-7-365. People will constantly have a chance to meet you and form impressions about you.
Your regular readers will know you, but new people may come to your blog at any time. So you need to be ready to make a great first impression with every single post. That’s a high standard to sustain.
Your readers will develop a picture of who you are—based on what you write. Your attitude, therefore, becomes critical. You can’t hide it. Your writings will in one way or the other reveal your real identity.
You want to show a positive, appealing attitude to your readers. What can you do?
Look carefully at your attitude within your writing. Do your words lift other people up and encourage them to think? Do your words show your frustration, anger, greed, or pretentiousness?
Blogging or not, you need to look at your attitude and reshape it for your own good. If you have the right attitude, it’ll show in your blog as well as every other part of your life. No mask will be necessary.
Blogging Tip: Drop the mask
Pretending to be someone else does not work. It doesn’t work in real life, and it certainly won’t work for your blog. Wearing a mask all the time can be costly and risky.
You could pretend to be bigger than who you really are. You might gain some traffic and credibility that way. However, imagine the impact that will occur when people find out the truth.
Drop the mask. It’s really not worth it.
Rajesh Setty is an entrepreneur, author and speaker based in Silicon Valley. He maintains another blog called Life Beyond Code and tweets as @UpbeatNow