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Day 1560: 4 Things Bloggers Should Do

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A mistake used as a teaching tool is an experience  – that’s what I keep realizing.

 

It’s 12 : 08 PM on day 1560 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to pray, brush my teeth, read Isaiah 45, publish my Disability of the Day feature,    publish my Kid of the Week feature, feed myself  a peanut butter sandwich and a banana for breakfast and  promote my Educate Generations campaign –  still on $1 190 and still praying some people have promised to donate for which I am very grateful (dear God please when you have a moment work through someone to help educate generations. Please and thank you in advance).

 

This morning I was thinking about the things that I wish someone had told me before I started blogging in 2010 and I wrote those things down in the hopes that it would help someone. Take a look:

4 Things Bloggers Should Do

  1. Own and manage your own domain name and hosting account – if someone else pays for and manages your domain name and hosting account they can pull the plug on your blog at any time.
  2. Be Consistent – if you can only blog once a week then blog once a week don’t blog once a week one week and five times a week the next week.
  3. Be honest and be yourself – when blogging it’s important to tell the truth about yourself and the things you notice around in a style that’s completely yours.
  4. Use your blog as a platform to help people – don’t use your blog to hurt those who hurt you rather use it to speak for the voiceless.

Day 229

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You’ve gotta cut people some slack sometimes – that’s what I learned today 🙂

It’s 9: 05 PM on day 229 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself bread and scrambled eggs for breakfast, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign – no luck –prepare my Kid of the Week feature – this week’s edition tugged at my heartstrings and proved to me that it’s never too late or too early to start making a difference 🙂 – feed myself rice and curry for lunch, tweet about my campaign some more – still no luck 🙁 –play some board games and card games with my siblings and guests – it was SO much fun 🙂 – feed myself a bread and jam sandwich for dinner and watch TV.

Today some people came to visit and it wasn’t until they left that it occurred to me that the adults barely spoke a complete sentence to me and in that moment I realized that people don’t know how to interact with disabled people without being awkward about it so I decided to give you some pointers on how to behave around the forgotten members of society:

Do’s and Don’ts of Dealing with Disabled People

  • Make eye contact
  • Smile
  • If you don’t know what interests him/her then just ask
  • Don’t talk about him/her talk to them. For instance, if you’re wondering if he/she wants juice ask him/her and not whoever is with him/her
  • Don’t make assumptions about his/her capabilities if you’re unsure about whether he/she can do something just ask

Are we connecting on Twitter? If not, say hi at http://twitter.com/Nisha360

If you’ve given to my cause or you can’t give now, please help me by sharing my cause with others. You can tweet about it like my friend Stan Faryna. This is the tweet he uses: @Nisha360 is a brave, smart young woman trying to make a better world for us all. Please help her do an amazing thing. http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/nisha-varghese/nishavarghese

Stan’s very sweet for saying so, but feel free to write what reflects you best.

Thanks to all my friends out there who are helping me make my dream come true: to make a better world for all of us!