4 reasons (4As) of Writing: What is YOUR reason?
Swaroop SHRM-SCP, ACC
Strategic HR Professional & Coach | Building #TraceYourMastery
As I reflect on my journey of writing on LinkedIn over the last several months, I feel there were four reasons.
In this article, I detail each of them so it can help others who are starting out.
1. Accept
It was during my coach training program in 2020, I re-connected with my passion to write, mostly as a form of reflective journaling with an intent to accept my own thoughts.
Last year I was going through my own set of lows while languishing and then I took to writing to embrace myself and my situation.
It worked out wonders for me. Writing to accept made me work on all levels and yet I feel like I am only getting started.
2. Attract
When I initially found that my write-ups are helping others, it increased the satisfaction level and I doubled down my efforts to be consistent.
I started to write for "an audience of one" but eventually I learnt that it can help attract interesting people into my life.
While I would love to grow my reach and attract a lot more people I remain rooted in my work and know that I should not fall for the vanity metrics.
3. Amplify
Many times I felt the need to voice out my thoughts because I am convinced that silence does more harm than being assertive.
When there is so much going around us, I wished to be myself while amplifying my thoughts, as a form of learning to grow by assuming responsibility and also caring to call a spade a spade.
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I believe that voicing our thoughts openly can help increase our confidence and eventually enable us to do the good that we deserve to do.
4. Act
I recently had this insight that writing is a great process to help move from ideation to execution.
Writing has been helping me to take action and avoid illusions.
I look forward to continuing this journey further and at the same time, I am very keen to find more reasons.
What are your reasons for writing (or not writing)?
Let me know in the comments.
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