Xtraordinary Women Magazine September 2014 | Page 31

Does writing your rstblog post
terrify you?

I remember when I published my first blog post
like it was yesterday. It was a terrifying experience
especially when self-limi ng belief thoughts starts
to flood your mind, giving you all the reasons why
you cannot write a blog post.
I think we can over complicate things some mes
and I think a large part of the problem is how
we’ve been pre-condi oned to behave and think
in a certain way that suits the status quo. Sadly the
result of this is that many of us have unrealised
gi s and talents all stored up inside of us just
wai ng for an opportunity to come out.

A stumbling block I had was wri ng in general. As a child my first language wasn’t always English
and all my schooling was in Afrikaans. At the age of 9 I switched over to an all English school which
presented numerous challenges for one of them being was wri ng essays and as far as I was
concerned I sucked at it. I got my brother to write my essays for me and this meant my wri ng skills
were literally non-existent.
Years later, I decided to start my own business and my strategy was not to use tradi onal media to
market my business but to use social media. This meant I needed to come up with crea ve ways on
how I was going to achieve this because constantly pos ng adverts in social networks really puts
people off. Be real, if you are not looking at those ads, then don’t expect your customers to look at
yours.
One of the ways you can market your business online is to use blog posts and ar cles. I decided I
was going to do this and went on a mission to learn how to write ar cles. I spent hours researching
the topic and then I put pen to paper and spent hours wri ng my first blog post and it took me 30
minutes to hit the publish bu on. Read More
by Romany Thresher