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BLOGTASTIC: Your blog can change who you are.
If you ask any serious blogger about the impact their blog has had on them, you will be positively surprised. It is nothing short of transformational.
Here are just a few ways your blog can change you:
1. Make you more observant: When you know that you need to be writing, you start observing more and thinking more.
2. Increase your responsibility: You’ve made a commitment to share ideas regularly to an audience. That’s different than discussing ideas one-on-one with your friend.
3. Encourage you to choose your identity: When you start getting serious traffic, you start worrying (in a good way) about your identity and start doing something about it.
4. Elevate your personal brand: Your blog can amplify who you are.
5. Extend your reach: You can reach people and places that you would have never imagined.
6. Open new opportunities: With a bigger personal brand and an extended reach, new doors open easily for you.
If you are serious about blogging, get ready to be transformed!
Blogging Tip: Choose the factors that will influence who you become
Right now, there are factors that will shape the person you will become. Only you would know what those components are and their level of influence. These can be as simple as your current network, the books you read, your current job, or your recent accomplishments.
You could go through your life passively and let others choose what factors will influence you. Or, you can take time to consciously shape your diet of reading and conversations. Choose your course wisely!
Rajesh Setty is an entrepreneur, author and speaker based in Silicon Valley. He maintains another blog called Life Beyond Code and tweets as @UpbeatNow
