How You can become a Happier Blogger - A Simple 4 Step Technique

While I can’t guarantee it, using this secret yet simple technique will probably make you smile and improve your blogging experience.

And the secret technique is…

Stop reading blogs! (some of them at least)

You shouldn’t dump all your feeds. Just the malicious ones. You know which ones, you have a couple of them in your feed list. These blogs are written by people that abuse others, that try to gain popularity by picking fights and are just irritating. It doesn’t matter how happy you are. These blogs will suck the life out of you.

Here’s how to do it:

  1. Open your blog reader
  2. Go over the feed list
  3. When you reach a blog that is abusive/insulting/irritating …
  4. Press the unsubscribe button

That’s all there is to it.

Warning: It is difficult to avoid smiling while applying this technique

Abusive and insulting people have no place in your feed list. Your mind is not their playing ground. Go and unsubscribe their ass. You will be a happier blogger!

Posted on April 10, 2007 by Yoav Ezer 
Filed Under Blogging

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21 Responses to “How You can become a Happier Blogger - A Simple 4 Step Technique”

  1. Liz Strauss on April 10th, 2007 4:11 pm

    Positive people attract positive outcomes.
    Positive people attract positive outcomes.
    Positive people attract positive outcomes.
    Positive people attract positive outcomes.
    When you smile people smile back.

    What a wonderful idea, and a great response to the negative stuff.

    Thank you Yoav!
    Liz

  2. A Great Idea Can Be So Simple - Liz Strauss at Successful Blog - Thinking, writing, business ideas . . . You’re only a stranger once. on April 10th, 2007 4:20 pm

    [...] Want to make a statement about what you think of negative talk in the blogosphere? Yoav has a simply great idea about what to do. [...]

  3. Mihaela Lica on April 10th, 2007 4:38 pm

    Thank Liz I am back on your blog! This entry is awesome: inspiring and positive. Have I mentioned funny? Yeah, you made me a happy blogger. But wait… it’s not the first time. :)

  4. Yoav Ezer on April 10th, 2007 4:44 pm

    Hey Liz,

    Thanks, and thanks for the link love.

    Hey Mihaela,

    I am happy you found this funny. Stick around. I will have some more funny stuff for you.

  5. Jesse Petersen on April 10th, 2007 5:00 pm

    I agree with your warning: /grin /smirk

    I have used that method several times and found it to be a great improvement on my day.

    Thanks for the simple reminder.

  6. Peter on April 10th, 2007 5:51 pm

    You’re right it is fun :)

  7. Easton Ellsworth on April 10th, 2007 6:49 pm

    Thank you Yoav. We reap what we sow.

  8. Yoav Ezer on April 10th, 2007 7:49 pm

    Hi Jesse,

    It’s was my pleasure.

    Hi Peter,

    Yes it is, It’s even more fun when it’s a famous dude’s feed.

    Hi Easton,

    Indeed we do. Indeed we do.

  9. Shawna R. B. Atteberry on April 10th, 2007 7:59 pm

    I found you through Liz. I love this post–you have a wonderful sense of humor to go along with the great advice.

  10. Yoav Ezer on April 10th, 2007 8:11 pm

    Hi Shawna,

    Welcome and thank you for the compliments.

  11. Gayla McCord on April 10th, 2007 8:19 pm

    I just love throwing out the karma boomerang and see what kinds of good things come back.

    Thanks for the reminder in hopes that others will play along too :)

  12. Yoav Ezer on April 10th, 2007 8:32 pm

    Hey Gayla,

    I was always a klutz with the boomerang. Kept hitting myself. Lets hope this Karma one is soft.

  13. Robert Hruzek on April 10th, 2007 8:56 pm

    Way to go, Yoav! So simple even a… oh, heck, we can ALL do it!

  14. Yoav Ezer on April 10th, 2007 11:06 pm

    Hi Robert,

    Yea it’s simple, but it’s also fun.

  15. Dave on April 10th, 2007 11:09 pm

    Yoav! Bravo… a step in the right direction for a REAL blogging code of ethics. :grin: Love it! I’m going through my feeder right now. Deleted two; added your’s.

  16. Jen / domestika on April 11th, 2007 5:32 am

    I think this idea has the same lovely simple pure joy that you get from hitting the Delete button on spam email. Thank you so much for a simple, elegant, effective way to deal with the negativity. You must be a really nice person!

  17. Shane on April 11th, 2007 8:01 am

    Good advice, online and off

  18. Yoav Ezer on April 11th, 2007 9:23 am

    Hi Dave,

    Thank you for the huge compliment. Thank^2 you for subscribing I’ll try to write stuff that deserves your patronage.

    Hi Jen,

    I try my best. Also…It is always an honor to have a goddess visit.

    Hi Shane,

    Thanks

  19. Adam Kayce : Monk At Work on April 14th, 2007 4:27 am

    Way to go, Yoav!

    Like attracts like, begets like, and all… it’s so true. It’s easy to sound cliche, but it’s absolutely true.

    I was having a conversation with my buddy Dawud the other day about this… how the negative-mongers will occupy their space, for sure, but eventually they’ll isolate themselves. Those who believe in living positively, sharing, living happily — we’ll all find each other and create the kind of life we believe (and know) is real, together. And, we’re vastly in the majority.

    Not that it’s about creating a bunch of separation, but simply about choosing responsibly for what we believe in growing and fostering.

    Such a better way to be! :D

    I’m curious, too, how you hold it if/when someone were to write a negative review of your work — would you answer it, and thereby engage with it? Or just leave it?

  20. Yoav Ezer on April 15th, 2007 4:31 pm

    Hi Adam,

    Thanks!

    You asked: I’m curious, too, how you hold it if/when someone were to write a negative review of your work — would you answer it, and thereby engage with it? Or just leave it?

    I’ll engage that person, if he is not a professional troll.

    You have to differentiate between the review and the person. If I managed to make a “normal” upbeat person angry enough to write a bad review, than I want to know how I did that, and to try and avoid doing that in the future. Some of the best advise I got in Cogniview (the company I worked at) was from angry customers. Also if a person is angry enough to write me (and he is not a professional troll), that means the person is passionate, and passionate users/customers are the best users/customers/friends. I’ll do my best to make them friends/supporters.

  21. Adam Kayce : Monk At Work on April 16th, 2007 5:31 pm

    I love the “professional troll” distinction — how true (yet how sad) that some folks have chosen to be the voice of negativity on a full-time basis.

    The distinction is a really good one, too… because there is a huge difference between the disgruntled fan and the troll. But if we don’t see that, we’re toast.

    Thanks again, Yoav!

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