Blogger’s Ego and Why You MUST Have One

10 Sep
2010


Usually the mere men­tion of ego does pro­duce a neg­a­tive image. The kind that makes being around the peo­ple who have them a challenge. Every time I think of egos now Beyonce’s song “Ego” comes to mind. Huge egos.

The guy who believes the world revolves around his exis­tence and takes credit for every­thing good. The woman who believes her beauty is above and beyond any­one elses. This is not the kind of ego that I am refer­ring to.

However, hav­ing an ego is one of life’s neces­si­ties. Without it a per­son would suc­cumb to all man­ners of self defeat. Even the sim­plest tasks would be insur­mount­able because the per­son would have con­vinced him­self that he/​she was inca­pable of doing any­thing well.

So for us blog­gers we have to have an ego as well. What does this mean?

As a new blog­ger I did not have a lot of con­fi­dence in my writ­ing. It was a com­bi­na­tion of inex­pe­ri­ence and a lack of abil­ity in devel­op­ing exactly what I wanted to say in words. So I was very inse­cure.

Until the day that I wrote some­thing and it struck me. It was good. I actu­ally liked what I wrote and not only that I felt a sense of pride in my work. The next post the words didn’t seem quite as hard to come by and I began to develop my own voice. Not only that I began to rec­og­nize it as well. At that moment I felt that what I had to say mat­tered and could be use­ful to some­one else.

That was when I devel­oped my blogger’s ego.

The kind that a blog­ger must have is that their writ­ing is impor­tant. Important enough even to stand out among oth­ers. With the huge crop of blog­gers there are you must have enough ego to truly believe in your­self. Your con­fi­dence will trans­late into inspir­ing your read­ers. That is what blog­ging is all about. We want to use our words to inspire some change or action or to influ­ence peo­ple to invest in us.

If you don’t feel that you have devel­oped that ego as of yet take a good long look at your writ­ing. Find what you like best about it and real­ize what you have achieved as well as what you are capa­ble of.

Thanks for read­ing,

Literary Nobody

Toya Bryant has written 193 article(s) for this site

Toya Bryant aka Literary Nobody is a Freelance Writer/Blogger who promotes positive thinking and actions within the community and the family. She also writes about the positives and negatives of technology, internet security and social media.

  • Lance Caje

    Blogger’s ego? Write it and post it. That’s my approach. I have been writ­ing a lot. I don’t even ask my wife, kids and close friends to cri­tique, I just post. Since I started this aggres­sive com­po­si­tion my con­fi­dence has tripled.

    Thank you for your post

    Lance

  • http://www.literarynobody.com/ Literary Nobody

    Thank you for your com­ment Lance. When I began I wanted everyone’s opin­ion on what I wrote. The prob­lem with that is you always will have some who give pos­i­tive and some who give neg­a­tive cri­tiques. You have to just rely on your own abil­ity. That’s where that ego comes to play. The con­fi­dence to know that what you say has value. Obviously you’ve got yours and that fuels blog­gers to keep going.

  • http://marievenezia.blogspot.com Marie

    EGO! And I thought it was the luck of a stu­pid bobble-​head Bart doll and pep­per­mint tea! So glad you’re back Toya, loved the blogs. Hugs. –Marie

  • http://www.literarynobody.com/ Literary Nobody

    LOL! so funny Marie. Good to hear from you :) Yes ego is required and a well bal­anced one at that. So glad that you liked the post. I hope that you will visit me as well on my new site dis​con​nectu​.com. Won’t be ready until January though.



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