CBC Wrap-Up with LaTara Ham-Ying

Today I am wrapping up my cross blog conversation defining “Mommy Blogger” with LaTara Ham-Ying from Mom Unplugged.  You can read the beginning of the conversation here.

LaTara, once again you have given amazing answers to my questions!  I’m not surprised that you enjoy writing a “deep” thinking blog because you give incredibly thought-filled responses.

In fact, I’m still mulling over your definition of “Mommy Blogger.” I think “a woman who writes passionately about her life and life as she sees it, sharing some good ideas, products, and more along the way” is the best definition of “Mommy Blogger” I’ve heard!

As you stated in the definition, passion is important when writing a blog.  While some variety within that passion is necessary, too much variety can be, well… too much.  Learning to limit our blog topics to our passions while omitting our current interests can be difficult but is necessary in order to better communicate with our readers.

I also love your 5 steps to determine a woman’s passions :

1. She needs to pay attention to those thing that make her want to do something more with it or about it.
2. Look at her talents, skills, and even spiritual gifts. Often times are passions are tied up with those three things.
3. Determine what matters most in life. This is a good way to find passion as well.
4. Pray about it.
5. Ask others what they think. Others can usually see what we can’t because we are too busy looking at what we do wrong.

I think it would be beneficial to work through these 5 steps at least once a year, maybe even once a quarter in regards to our blogs;  doing so would provide a useful reminder of why we do what we do.

Well, I could write about this topic all night but it’s time to wrap up this cross blog conversation.  So, thank you for participating, LaTara, and enriching my definition of “Mommy Blogger”.  I think we can safely say you and I meet the definition of Mommy Blogger!

Read LaTara’s closing post here, but before you go I’d love to hear in the comments how you define “Mommy Blogger.”  Are you a Mommy Blogger?  Do you know your life’s passion?

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