Don’t Fall in the Expert Trap - Strive for Genuine Authority
Being fascinated with experts and preferring them to others when it comes to educating ourselves on something, when we need to consult someone for advice or need to make a decision is perfectly natural. However, at the end of the day no one knows everything about everything. Therefore is it wise to check what those possessing the most knowledge within a particular field know and not least what they can teach us so that we also know more about it before dealing with something within the field ourselves. If you want to start a blog you check the meta bloggers, …
The First Months of Blogging May Break or Make You
As I wrote in A Successful Blog Launch and the First Few Days Blogging is starting a new blog an exciting venture that however also has its disenchanting moments. The time following the launch have even more pitfalls and even more serious ones at that since you now have more to lose. The perhaps most serious one is that you lose the orientation. To begin with is everything so exciting and your sense of purpose seems so clear. The more other aspects that come into play and the more you work on carving out your niche the easier is …
