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Five Lessons From One Year of Blogging
In 2015 I discovered a passion for writing. Since then, I dreamed of writing on a blog of my own, but self-doubt impeded me for five years. A year ago, I finally got over myself and wrote my first blog post for medium.
It’s been a crazy year full of many lessons, but here are five that I got from blogging.
Self-Validate
“Those who need to seek validation extrinsically, will find a decline in well-being” — John Broadway
(Full disclosure: I get how silly it looks to start with a quote from myself, but there’s a method to my madness, stay with me!)
This quote comes first because it was a lesson I spoke about in my first blog post: A Lesson From the Quarantine: Reconfigure Public Health Holistically. I shared how I put a crazy amount of time and energy into writing an Ebook. When I didn’t get the extrinsic validation I sought from it, my well-being, in multiple aspects (mental, emotional, social, physical), took a temporary nosedive.
I learned that a huge aspect of spiritual well-being is the ability to validate ourselves and our efforts without seeking validation extrinsically, outside ourselves. I still struggle with this, but it’s such a good lesson to be conscious of constantly, and I hope you are.