Throughout my process of blogging I have grown and expanded my understanding of the blogging world.  Looking back to the start of this experience I found myself puzzled and a little hesitant into what I was going to explore.  My first impressions of blogging was dull — a source of media that was not going to improve my comprehension of writing skills.  I began to walk this path of blogging and thought to myself how could I have a blog that is influential and impactful to a reader.  I wanted to create a blog that would motivate readers and open their eyes into a meaningful topic.  I came to the conclusion to talk about success.

Now, success is a broad topic and can be taken in different ways.  I wanted to pin-point three areas that I have found in my life to be the most crucial aspects.  Success is something everyone wants, but I wanted to seek the deeper meaning of success.  I tried to connect this valuable item called success into my readers in order for them to think about their own life.  Readers want to be able to grab what the text is saying and make correlations into their own lives.  Blogging is a great place where writing can be expressed in many different ways and an article I read on Huffington explains these different styles.  Some of the main points in this article that connect to my life at the moment are making a difference, share your knowledge, and refine writing styles.

I did not want to make my blog too focused on myself, but in other words reflect on how I have came in contact with success and teach others how they can implement success into their own lives.  I started off with my first post touching upon the area of knowing your own success.  Success is not just about the money you have or the clothes you wear.  Success shapes the person you are and can be taken in multiple ways.  I wanted to create my opening post that would help the reader engage themselves into my blog.  I scratched the surface about what success means to me and how to find your own success in your life.

Sanchez, Mark Baker. Success Is a Journey. Crated, crated.com/art/123362/
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My next post I felt an urge to add something on the other side of the spectrum, which would create depth into my topic success.  I wanted to add a layer of difficultly and that layer was failure.  Failure I felt would create a blog with multiple perspectives so the reader could understand what creates success.  In this piece I explained how failure is one of the greatest teachers in life.  Failures are not the most exciting topic to talk about, but is something everybody will experience.  This post would be the link to success and help me branch off into others areas to explore.  Failure is a post that I created, to have more of a motivational feel to the piece.  I tried to explain how failure can change the way you think about things.  Learning from your mistakes can create a impactful feeling to do better.  I added more of a reflection quality to the piece so it would open the readers eye into how success is achieved.  Branching off of failures I thought about my next post and how you should go about dealing with failures.  I looked at articles about success and read peoples stories on how they dealt with failures.  When I thought about these stories of other people and thinking to myself I grabbed onto the process of planning.

“Gender Planning.” Eige, eige.europa.eu/gender-mainstreaming/tools-and-methods/
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Planning is an attribute that can directly help with failures.  If you can plan well and prepare for the worst you can better deal with those failures.  Obstacles can hold you back from accomplish your dreams in life.  If you can prepare for those obstacles you can get by them much faster and easier.  Successful people always talk about how they planned and constantly tried to get ahead of the game.  In this piece I wanted to allow the reader into who I am and explain how planning is apart of my life.  I discussed the process of writing goals everyday and striving to push myself.  I tried to create a blog that would encourage others to plan and create an incentive to strive for more.  I opened up myself into the blog and gave the reader an outlet to look at.

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Throughout my weeks of blogging I learned that I can express myself and not get caught up in the normal way of writing.  Blogging can be free floating and flow along the boundaries of English.  You do not need to structure your piece in the standard five paragraph writing style.  I tried to implement deeper meanings into my blog so that the reader could take some pieces with their own opinion.  I tired to balance the styles of reflexive and reflective throughout my posts, so I could create a flowing piece.  This unique source of the internet called blogging has opened my eyes into why blogging is important.  In todays time technology is a crucial part of our lives and blogging takes advantage of this.  I have enjoyed blogging and am glad to have a place where you can write about anything for the world to see.  Blogging is a blank canvas for a writer to express who they are and allow others to come into their lives.  As a new blogger I would like to leave the readers with this quote.  A quote that I found has summed up what blogging means and is a quote that has clicked with me in this blogging experience.

“Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.” – Andrew Sullivan