Another month already! I feel like an ass — the one up top, with the load of someone else’s crap on his back. If that isn’t foreshadowing, I don’t know what is. Before I break it down, check out March’s wrap-up.

Like previous wrap-ups, this is a stream of consciousness on the few topics that have occupied my mind while engaged in the world of blogging this last month, and the lessons I’ve learned.

Blog First for You, then Blog for Them…

It’s all about mentality.

The second I shift from blogging to voice my thoughts, opinions and expertise to blogging because the people demand it, I feel as if a concrete sack has been pinned to my back and I’m being made to scale the mountain. I’m missing the view, the sweat pouring down my face is burning my eyes, so I walk blind.

When I speak for me, my words resonate in other people and a harmonic understanding is created. When I speak for others, everyone loses footing and nothing is heard.

Consistency is the Key, but…I Misplaced the Lock

Consistency is the answer. Quality is good, but not a necessity. Quantity can help, but again, it isn’t necessary.

Being consistent is one of the most confusing aspects of life, let alone blogging. It lives right on the back of change, camouflaged within its spiny shell. It is not about going against change, it is about riding with it — we make stops and detours here and there along the road of change, but when we set off again, it is in the direction we have always been going, and that, is consistency.

I know that I have the key, but sometimes I forget where it goes. Sometimes I try to use it on a door that looks prettier but has nothing to offer once it is opened.

Popular Doesn’t Always Mean Good

If someone talks loud enough and long enough, people begin to listen, no matter what is being said. That isn’t to say that quantity trumps quality, but rather that the definition of quality starts from the mediocre and spans to the phenomenal — it no longer means phenomenal alone. Another words, you can be phenomenal and gain popularity, or you can be mediocre, flaunt it, and achieve popularity just the same — maybe even faster.

Let’s face it, in the world of online social media, the more so called “friends” we have, the easier it is to get the mediocre to enough eyes to have it become popular. There are still many sheep in the world and even times when the herder dawns a wool coat to mask the relentless cold — people see a story with a voting system clung to the side of it and if that thumbs up number is high enough — past their threshold for in-depth speculation — they mindlessly give their vote in an upward motion.

It’s a proven fact: the more people you get to say yes to something, the more people that would have said no will begin to turn around and mosey back over to yes camp. This is the way things are and it makes people with a true voice something special indeed.

Damn, blogging was deep this month.

Image credit: Ahron de Leeuw.

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