Week 11: tiny buddha

I chose a motivational blog called “tiny buddha” (https://tinybuddha.com/), partly because I loved its name so much, however, it was also because searches for motivational blogs turned up such a large number of them that were so great that I had to turn to a more subjective way of choosing one to focus on.  The content, as far as I can tell, is all about how to live one’s best life.  The creator, Lori Deschene brings the reader to many different small life realizations through the experiences of many different writers, explaining in her “About” page that

Though I run this site, it is not mine. It’s ours. It’s not about me. It’s about us. Your stories and your wisdom are just as meaningful and useful as mine. (Deschene)

Her “About” page also explains that the site’s posts are about “happiness, love, relationships, change, meaning, mindfulness, spirituality, simplicity, minimalism, letting go, and more” (Deschene).  In the posts on her blog site that I read, writers like Graham Panther talk about things like learning to cut through self-doubt and to accept praise in “Why Compliments Made Me Cringe and How I’ve Learned to Accept Praise,” and in my favorite so far, by Will Aylward, “9 Lessons from my 9-Month-Old Nephew, Who’s Taught me How to Live,” the writer persuades the reader to live a simpler and more caring life through the innocent life of their 9-month-old nephew, Oliver!

The overall motivational strategy is to have many different writers analyze events and relationships in their lives in both logical and abstract ways and for it all to culminate into one site where readers can find many different perspectives on living life.

This blog site can be appealing to almost anyone because of the wide array of viewpoints from the many different writers.  I really love the idea of it, almost like a community involved in one long positive conversation about living life.