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Should I blog more?

Remkus wrote on 5 June, 2015 12 Comments

I work with WordPress all day. I have been since late 2005. I started using WordPress for what it was supposed to do back in the day: blogging. The more I started discovering the possibilities WordPress gave me, in terms of earning my living with it, the less I started blogging.

I’m guessing the decline in my blogging frequency started out as a preference to rather be working on building my business than randomly writing blog posts. But it could be I just got lazy and stopped bothering. Either way, I kinda stopped blogging. Not full stop, but very close.

So, I didn’t think I had to answer the question my good friend Chris raised a couple of days ago. I started skimming his post titled “Should I stop blogging?” and was quickly assured that Chris has no intention in stopping himself, but that he was, in fact, encouraging everyone to actually start blogging (again).

Which of course made me think about my own blog.

Chris sums up 5 lies we tell ourselves to not blog and even though my blogging certainly didn’t stop because of all of those 5 lies, I did resonate with Lie #1 and #2 and #3 to some degree and I think I need stop telling myself those lies.

Lie #1: We need to be inspired to write

I’m plenty inspired on a day to day basis, but I find it difficult to transport that inspiration into something I share here. In some way because I can’t be bothered, but on a deeper level I don’t know where to start. So, I’m going to start looking for ways to do just that. Transform my inspiration.

I guess you could see this post as a start(?) :).

Lie #2: We’re not great writers

Yeah, well, I’m really not. I love reading Zé‘s posts and I think I recognize a great writer when I see one, but I’m not one of them. But perhaps I don’t need to be quite that great? Not having English as my first or second language is definitely not helping me to find a proper flow (you should see how many times I have to rewrite a sentence just to get a flow), but then again, maybe I should just lower the bar some and just write. Just write.

Lie #3: We need something spectacular to share

This is definitely a lie I tell myself and one that I need to stop repeating. This one, much like Lie #2, just needs for me to lower the bar.

381 Words in, but what gives?

So, what I’m really saying here is that I’m trying going to blog more. Instead of raising the bar high yet again and committing to a daily schedule like Chris, I’m keeping it light. I’m also not going the Karim road here either. I mean, two blogs a decade is nice and all, but that’s the schedule I was on there. Kinda. I’ve got to do better than that 😉 .

Blog at least once a week. Not just WordPress, because that’s too limiting for me, but anything that I find interesting. Maybe it’s a comment on someone else’s post or maybe it’s just me expressing … things. We’ll see.

Posting something here on is not a raison d’être so I do actually care what you as my audience are curious about and owuld like to see me blog about. In other words: I’m very curious of what you’d like to see me cover.

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Whew, 577 words 😀

Foto credit.

Topic: Blog blogging

Liberation of the human mind

Remkus wrote on 30 December, 2014 Leave a Comment

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government.

Anarchism stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals for the purpose of producing real social wealth; an order that will guarantee to every human being free access to the earth and full enjoyment of the necessities of life, according to individual desires, tastes, and inclinations.

Emma Goldman

Topic: Blog

Genesis Translations updated to 2.0.0

Remkus wrote on 10 December, 2013 13 Comments

Yesterday I finally found some time to update my Genesis Translations plugin to match the release of Genesis 2.0. A lot of languages have been updated and a few new ones have been added, but it is still very well possible that your language is not complete.

In other words: we need your help in making the translations complete! Please let me know if I can help you on your way with translating.

Topic: Blog

What is this Europe you are speaking of?

Remkus wrote on 16 September, 2013 2 Comments

With only 20 days left till WordCamp Europe, I thought it’d be good to refresh everyone’s definition of Europe.

… Continue reading »

Topic: Blog We Are All One

Outlaw Porsche

Remkus wrote on 15 September, 2013 Leave a Comment

I’m a huge fan of the early Porsche 911 and absolutely love what Magnus Walker does customizing those early beauties.

Topic: Blog Magnus Walker, Porsche

Might isn’t right

Remkus wrote on 15 September, 2013 Leave a Comment

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior towards creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

Isaac Bashevis Singer from Enemies, A Love Story

Topic: Blog

We love only the reflection of ourselves…

Remkus wrote on 22 August, 2013 Leave a Comment

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Thomas Merton

Topic: Blog

After Six Million Years of Boredom..

Remkus wrote on 21 August, 2013 Leave a Comment

Came across this banned TED talk by Graham Hancock that I’d urge you to watch. Especially his statements about Ayahuasca.

Topic: Blog

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