{"id":36,"date":"2012-02-08T03:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/2012\/02\/08\/this-blogs-purpose\/"},"modified":"2015-02-18T00:27:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T00:27:59","slug":"this-blogs-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/2012\/02\/08\/this-blogs-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"This Blogs Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2012\/08\/Self-Development.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-75 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2012\/08\/Self-Development.jpg\" alt=\"Self-Development\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2012\/08\/Self-Development.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2012\/08\/Self-Development-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>&#8230;I need to get this clear in my head before I post more, I think \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><strong>Primary:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Personal Development- Highlighting insights, self-discoveries, words of wisdom, and tracking my progress as I strive to better my own life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Secondary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Share my experiences with other people. Maybe get feedback from comments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really want to monetise it as I feel it would cheapen what I&#8217;m trying to do here, but increasing my income is part of my master plan, so I guess it would be fine to get adsense clicks if I am to post stuff which is pretty useful to people. But then, do I want to write this blog for myself or others? Or both? I guess write this for myself mainly, then reassess later down the line&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I want to try to leave out petty day to day feelings. I&#8217;ve kept a separate, main, personal journal for several years and can continue to keep one for those kinds of things&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I wonder, do I really want 4 separate blogs and journals like I currently add to? In addition to this one I&#8217;ve got: my:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Private Journal\/Diary which I use for voicing my thoughts and usually bitching about life!<\/li>\n<li>Private daily tasks Blog for the purpose of recording what I&#8217;m doing with my days in short bullet points.<\/li>\n<li>Private Positive Blog, which I occasionally remember to record positive things I did in my day or have achieved recently.<\/li>\n<li>Plus I have several separate documents detailing specific facets of my personality or longer articles\/mini essays I&#8217;ve written which seem too profound to include within my daily bitchings etc!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I guess I record a lot of thoughts with lots of self-analysis and discoveries and trying to organize it all is in itself a mammoth project! Perhaps I should just have one place to record all this stuff, like a dedicated, organized website I use which mixes public and private content? And then I would need to find a way to regularly back it all up locally as I would not be happy if there was some kind of web server crash and I lost my life&#8217;s work so to speak! Keeping digital records of my life over the last 10 years or so has been a pretty big part of my life and don&#8217;t think I will ever completely give it up, even if I was super happy and busy living life (which is kinda my big goal!). I would love to present my &#8216;life data&#8217; as a kind of well constructed body of work and want this blog- my &#8216;evolution as a person&#8217; to be part of that. I need to consider keeping a coherent system for blogging, organizing data, thoughts and writings which isn&#8217;t going to suck away all my free time and not allow me to live the normal life I&#8217;m striving for.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time constraints: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Further to what I was saying about recording lots of thoughts, I often wonder how I can do this effectively and consistently? I would ideally like to write my thoughts down on a weekly basis or perhaps every 3 days. This means I will need to set aside 30 mins &#8211; 2 hours (historically how long I spend on a post) but don&#8217;t want blogging to become a chore. Also, I&#8217;m great at waffling- basically writing the thoughts that pop into my head as I sit here. I like waffling but this lack of consideration to the quality or preciseness of the content I&#8217;m writing makes it hard to stay on topic and time consuming to re-read at later dates! I question whether or not I even want to potentially spend 2-4 hours a week writing stuff down, when I realize that &#8216;doing&#8217; and living life would be more productive towards my goals rather than &#8216;wasting time&#8217; by recording my past from the last few days. I guess if I did find it a waste, I&#8217;d just not do it for however long and not stress over potential long gaps between posts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Creating an accurate representation of my life:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One&#8217;s life can only be described as one&#8217;s perception of it and does not represent fact. With this in mind, how can I record progress I&#8217;m making if I&#8217;m in a depressed mood where everything seems shit? I could win gold at the Olympics or score with a super model but if my thoughts are clouded with negativity, I wont see these things an achievements and positive progress. Instead, I&#8217;ll think something along the lines of: &#8220;I only got gold because the others in the race had a bad day, and who cares about a stupid medal anyway&#8221;. And so I may not notice it&#8217;s a successful result worth recording. I guess we will see if I can go from a stage of not noticing positive successes to being aware and proud of them on a more regular basis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Note to self: read the words under the &#8216;Primary&#8217; heading, and don&#8217;t stress the rest.. for now \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I need to get this clear in my head before I post more, I think \ud83d\ude00 Primary:\u00a0 Personal Development- Highlighting insights, self-discoveries, words of wisdom, and tracking my progress as I strive to better my own life. 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