Blogging Faith and Desire
by Charlotte on Jan.01, 2010, under General
Blogging is an act of faith and desire. Desire? Because surely, to keep it up, to have the tenacity to write more than five blogs per year, you have to have some kind of motivation behind what you’re doing. Some reason why you’re doing it in the first place. I say ‘you’re’ when I really mean me. I am a perennial ‘shoulda woulda coulda’ when it comes to writing anything. I have a degree in journalism and a non stop flow of ideas for documentaries, novels and movie scripts, though when it comes to actually sitting down and writing anything, I get a serious case of self indulgent procrastination and writers block. My desire for creating a blog for Atmosphere One, was never about developing a blog because it is the thing to do. Certainly, it won’t be a forum for whinging and criticism. My blogging desire was partly selfish to actually get my writing juices flowing and partly because well, I know a lot of really interesting people, who, if I am able to help or inspire in some way, by imparting knowledge and the sharing of ideas then my blogging desire will be totally fulfilled.
This is where I think the importance of Blogging Faith comes in. Faith is quite necessary, in any endeavor really. Blogging can feel like somewhat of a narcissistic pursuit in the beginning. How do you know anyone is really going to read what you write in the first place? After all, we’re talking an over saturated market here. Every man and his dog has a blog these days and in recruitment, there will be the challenge of writing about more than just interview skills and the same rehashed topics on resume writing tips etcetera. So far so good – I’m quite pleased with myself that I didn’t call my first blog ‘Welcome.’ So I’ll keep on writing and have blogging faith that someone will get something from this – even if it’s only me.
March 25th, 2010 on 11:55 am
yo excellent blog yea nice job amazing stuff thanx
April 13th, 2010 on 11:56 pm
Hello,
believe it or not but I too am quite bored of the same’ol ‘blogs’ as they call it.
You have made a real impression on my perspective on company blogs, it makes you realize how impersonal and dry they are. It was refreshing to see that it actually does pay to think outside the box.
I myself am a newcomer to the recruitment industry, I wanted to start my own company in 2008 but my pregnant belly made it a little difficult, later in 2008 I enrolled in a business plan course through NEIS where little by little the puzzel pieces started falling into place, oh I forgot to mention that was 6 months pregnant with my second child. Later I realized that starting my own recruitment company and juggling a family was not going to be easy, so I got as far as building the fundamental basis of the company and registering a name but that was as far as I got. Reading your blog brought back the spark that I had in 2008, I would honoured if I could buy you lunch to disscus some business.
Thank you again, looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Kind Regards,
Daniella
April 14th, 2010 on 9:29 am
Hi Daniella,
Thank you so much for your kind words about the blog (though I do need to step to it and get writing some more!!). I am pleased it has contributed to reinvigorating your confidence around having your own business one day.
Do feel free to give me a call later on next week to have a chat.
Warm regards,
Charlotte.