Empowerment by Blogging
How Blogging Empowers You to the Greatness Within
When I started my first blog, I was still working as a classroom teacher. We had a science fair coming up, and I was looking for a way to help my students embrace technology — this was 2005 and even having a computer in the classroom was rare — so they could move quickly and confidently into the future with knowledge about what was then referred to as the World Wide Web. I started a blog on Google’s Blogger/Blogspot platform. The empowerment by blogging gave me hope for the future and we made history at our school and within the school district in Los Angeles.
There are so many benefits of blogging on a regular basis, and here I’ll share a few of my favorite ones with you.
A Blog Keeps You from Bottling Up Your Emotions
In a world where just about everyone is suffering from some sort of stress, it’s difficult to find a venue to be able to express your emotions without worrying that you’re just going to burden others. The empowerment by blogging includes being better able to navigate our changing world.
In our private lives, we often keep the turmoil hidden just below the surface, never sharing our troubles, but instead keeping them bottled up so that we can deal with them on our own when time allows — if that ever…