Off With Your Comments Challenge

Who do you really blog for?  And what do you blog for? Yourself?  Other people?

Do you receive any negative comments on your blog when you’re writing a real post or anything that people may disagree with?  Do you hold back posts you really want to write because you fear what others people might think of you?

I have a challenge for everyone that is interested!  And this challenge isn’t easy by any means.  It’ll be quite a tough challenge for most, I think.

Starting Sunday, I challenge all of you to turn OFF your comments.  The only reason during this challenge that you can turn your comments on is if you’re hosting a giveaway.  Otherwise, off with your comments!  Are you wondering why?

Let’s blog for ourselves for an entire week.  Uninhibited blog posts.  Meaning, you’re not blogging to receive comments, you’re only blogging for yourself and no one else. You’re not blogging to see how many comments you can get, you’re not blogging for anyone else – Just you and you alone.  I bet you anything your blogging will get better.

The thing is, I know many of us blog to see how many comments we’ll get on “this post” or “that post”.  But do you remember when you first started blogging?  When you first started blogging there were no expectations of comments or who likes your post the most.  You were blogging to write things out.  Your blog is YOU.  It’s a part of who you are.  I saw a comment on someone’s blog the other day by This Little Momma, the other day that said, “I always think of my blog as my home. I decorate it to my taste. I fill it with all things I love, like, and think (from my life to my style)- and then I invite my readers in. I’m opening my ‘home’ to my readers, I just ask that they please respect that.”   

I loved her comment, because it’s true!  You wouldn’t decorate your home to please others aside from you or your husband right?  You wouldn’t fill it with things other people loved, would you?  Ask yourself this question honestly, do you blog for you or everyone else?  Is your blog really you, or is it just a teeny portion of you because you’re afraid of what other’s will think of YOUR thoughts and opinions?

So here it is.  The challenge.  Starts Sunday, February 19th.  Ends Sunday, February 26th.  Comments get turned back on on Monday the 27th.

In this time frame, blog away.  Blog about anything you want to.  Blog about your life, your feelings, your opinions, anything.  Blog REAL.  Is this a hard challenge?  You bet your cute tush it is!  But I can honestly say that I bet your blogging will become better because you’re inhibitions are down.  You’ll be blogging anything and everything.  And you won’t have that fear of “what kind of comments am I going to get because of this post?”
So, what do you say?  Will you join me?

Link up below if you will.  We’ll all read each other’s blogs over the week… it’ll be neat to see how they all progress.  It’ll be awesome to read what you all are writing!  And when the week is over and the comments are on again. We can come together and write how it affected us.  How we think our blogging changed.  Let’s do this!