If you’ve been thinking about blogging, and making it more than a simple “here’s what I did today” journal, then you need to check out Joshua Porter’s 9 Lessons for Would-Be Bloggers. It’s a great rundown of things that’ll motivate your soul and stimulate your mind. Here’s one of my favs:

It’s only an initial fear

The problem with blogging isn’t just the writing part. It’s also the putting-myself-on-public-display part. Many would-be bloggers that I’ve met don’t blog because they’re not comfortable with throwing themselves to the wolves…putting their ideas out into the world for all to see. Once you do that, of course, you open yourself up for criticism, and goodness knows that you’ll get some! But you’ll also get encouragement, and some people will really groove on what you say. Once you get a little practice under your belt, you’ll find that it’s only an initial fear…it gets easier as you go along to share your ideas.

Definitely one of my biggest challenges in the beginning was the realization that, “hey, someone could come up to me and make a comment about something I wrote on my blog.” However, once I realized that this simply meant people were reading (plus some other ego-check dealios I worked through), I was ready to rock and roll.

Check out the rest of his post here, and take notes (or add his article to del.icio.us; either way, show this guy some love!).

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