Why Do You Blog? - Reworked

First I want to thank everyone who participated in my earlier post "Why do you Blog?":

Amel's Realm
Mahendra
DUTCHCORNER
A little bubble in the maelstrom
lynda's loft
The Oswegan
The Thoughts and Sayings Of Baba Doodlius
Nonsense, fun, tears, happiness & anger all rolled into one!
Revellian
Gurushabad
MAX
Mental Poo
Life is a roller coaster!
AntiBarbie
NAFASG©™
Little Aussie Cynic
Working From Home! - Rose's Blog
Pete Aldin
Enjoy Life
Geoffrey
WIXY's Gone Bananas
Anything Goes!
~~Sugar Queen's Dream~~
Linda and her Surroundings
Comedy Plus
Sister2brother

After much thoughtful review of your comments I have decided to make a change to my “CAVES” analysis (Cathartic, Altruistic, Validation, Earnings & Strength.) I have reworded the entire process. Here is what I have come up with:

• Cathartic – I have changed this to Therapeutic, which is really more descriptive in why we want to share experiences.
• Altruism – Stays the same. A way to disseminate valuable information (valuable in the mind of the blogger. Whether it is actually valuable has no real bearing for this discussion) that you want to be put out their; truly giving.
• Validation – Stays the same. To feel valued as a person, or feel that his or her ideas, opinions or creativity are worthwhile.
• Earnings – I have changed this to Money. (Again, whether blogging actually can make money has no bearing on this conversation.)
• Strength – I have changed this to Improvement. What I mean by this is a channel by which we can effect change.
• Communication – New addition. Some of us what to be able to communicate with family and friends based on your circumstance, communicate with like minded people.
• Enjoyment – New addition. Let’s face it, some of find the process to be fun.
• Enlightenment – New addition. Some of us are looking for growth, looking to learn and, yes, become enlightened. If you are providing enlightenment then Improvement is your focus.

So the new formula will be known as TIME CAVE

Therapeutic
Improvement
Money
Enjoyment
Communication
Altruism
Validation
Enlightenment

Again, for the sake of this discussion let’s use the following scale:
0 = Absolute no
10 = Absolute yes

Using the TIMECAVE analysis I will rework my original quotient.

T – 3
I – 8
M – 3
Enj – 9
C – 2
A – 4
V – 6
Enl – 2

I believe that this analysis better address the varying needs of why a blogger blogs. I know that it better enables me to come to grips with why I blog. For me the rewording of Strength to Improvement better describes what I am doing. It allowed me to reduce my Altruism factor in order to make it more realistic.

I would love to get further feedback. I grow with every discussion. Maybe I should increase my Enlightenment factor?

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Living In The Moment

The best way to get through life, with the most enjoyment and the least amount of stress, is to live in the moment. In order to effectively live in the moment you must believe in your ability to cope with whatever life throws at you. You must have confidence in yourself, the confidence that you will do the right thing. Knowing that you can effectively deal with any situation that comes your way will better enable you to live in the moment.

Remember that life is only 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react. By living in the moment you have a far greater ability to be happy. If you are living in the past or worrying about the future you are probably filled with negativity. You are most likely listening to a destructive inner voice that is robbing you of the “moment." It’s critical that you learn to turn the negative self talk into positive self talk. Only by being positive can you truly live in the moment.

Another destructive behavior that postpones the “moment” is to live for “more.” Always wanting “more” and focusing on “more” is contradictory to living in the moment. Postponing happiness until you have “more” pretty much insures an unhappy life. The “more” focuses all of your energy on the future making it virtually impossible to live in the moment.

Living in the moment allows you to focus on the people and things that are important to you right now. This also enables you to feel and show gratitude, which is an absolute prerequisite for happiness. Believe it or not gratitude is a key to abundance.

Happiness really is simple and what’s more it is a choice. It all circles back to having the right attitude. With the right attitude, a positive attitude, you are better able to live in the moment and better able to experience happiness.

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