TEREZUM

As you may be sitting on the couch munching on potato chips and binge watching netflix series you might burst out laughing at the idea that you could have your own website. “Why on Earth should I have one? I have nothing to share to the world…” . Wrong. Every person has something unique about them , something that nobody else has. Think of fingerprints. How smart and fascinating is it that nobody else has yours and nobody else will? I bet that there are billions of ways in which this paragraph could be rewritten by billions of other people. Each will be unique. So to those who might be binge watching screens…. Perhaps it never crossed your mind that an excellent movie critic could be hidden deeply inside of you…Perhaps a videographer or costume designer is munching on those darn chips, not having a clue on what they have to share to the world.

We all have had a taste of social media. God forbid someone decides to delete Facebook, Instagram, TikTok ( some had a taste of that)….what else is left? You have no ownership of whatever you might be posting. Think of something else too: how can you filter your content so people whould be able to read just your food posts or art posts or you-just-not-doing-nothing posts? On Instagram you just scroll up and down your profile. Unless you have a business and soap is all you post about…your uniqueness is scattered all over the place.

I think of myself. Someone with multiple talents who got tired to try to reach so many social media outlets. It drained me. For someone whose main focus is to create , wasting precious time to post on social media for exposure is crazy. Unless you hire a team for that you are signing in for massive frustration and time wasting. So I turned my wordpress blog into a website. By myself. Now I can blog and also have sections where I can showcase my work. I find it easier to just focus on what I could write or do next. I know that this website won’t disappear unless I forget to pay for it hahaha. But there was a major relaxation moment to know that I am done with trying to spread on so many channels. You might say that yes, this is easy to do when you are just writing and not selling a product. I agree. I do not have massive stocks of tshirts waiting to be sold and I just stay with a pina colada and say: screw social media, I will just be on my website. For sure it depends on where you are at and where you are going. But I think that classic social media is saturated and impersonal. I believe that maybe in the future people will want to go back to read a blogger and to know that they find authentic content, with genuine emotion, not a curated gallery of pimple free selfies and hashtags #livingmybestlife.

You have something to share to this world and this should become the main focus that consumes you. What is it? What do you do that you love and even if tomorrow billions of dollars would come your way you would still continue it? Be it writing, painting, baking, programming or other endeavours you should pursue it and build a website around it. To be able to look back at it and watch your work and progress in sections will give you a massive boost of confidence. Remember how you used to be 10 years ago? Look at you now. I bet there is at least one area where you improved a minimum 0,1%. It might not seem much, but as we all know change is tough and any progress is huge.

I also believe that if you have a knack for writing and sharing your thoughts about anything that you love doing you should attach a blogging section to your website. There are still people out there who love to read and take a sneak peak into somebody else’s mind. Try it. It doesn’t have to be perfect , but it has to be…you.