Not
to be self-proclaimed or anything but I tend to be a jack-of-all-trades, master
of none. By definition, a jack-of-all-trades is a person who can do many
different types of work but who is not necessarily very competent at any of
them. It implies that by trying to learn many things, you give up the mastery
of any of them. But there's an interesting idea from David Cole that this is a
myth (let's talk about that some other time). I guess what I'm trying to say is
despite the many things that I would like to do at the same time, it helps to
define objectives and targets in my blogging life. I find it challenging to
extract these from my ever-disorganized mind but I'll give it a shot. So here
are my blogging goals for the time being:
1.
Have an end-of-the-week entry. Along with my posts every now and then, I
intend to maintain a weekly entry that will highlight my week's favorites. Be
it in music, tv shows and everything else under my leisure list.
2. Be original. As much as possible. I
mean it's hard to perceive what's original or not these days. I've seen a lot
of people use someone's idea and pretend it's their own. It kind of disgusts me
in all honestly. However, there's really no such thing as starting from
scratch. What I want to emphasize is although I could get inspiration from
other blogs, I'd still be able to create something unique that would express
who I really am. But at the same time giving credit to where it is due.
3.
Write not just for the sake of writing. I hope I don't compromise this because of
my first commitment. So you know what they say, make writing a habit. And as
cliché as it may sound, always write from the heart.
4. Minimize linking other
photos. Refer
to number 2 and you'll know I'm a bit of a hypocrite. Half-kidding. The photos
that I've used for my past entries are from different blogs (I put credits at
the bottom) because I'm such a rookie at photo editing. But I'll try to make my
own (or perhaps use fotor) from now on.
5.
Interact more with bloggers. This is challenging than I thought. I want to
think that I'm selectively social/ambivert or whatever label or category people
made in order to comfort themselves. So I commit to take baby steps in
interacting more with different kinds of bloggers to widen my perspective.
6. Make money out of
blogging. Now
this is the difficult part. I don't like to do it because of the profit but
since there is an opportunity, let's let it in. Also, we're paying for the
domain so we want the return of investment, don't we? I just do not know how to
put ads and carry this out without annoying the readers (myself included). This
is something I have to research first.
7. Have fun! And don't take everything
too seriously.
There
you have it, ladies and gents, my 7 blogging goals that would most likely be
just a drive for the next few months. To be fair to myself, I hope not.
