If You Don’t Like Me, Just Blau Me.
It’s funny, this whole concept of being an “influencer”. When I think about influence, I think about encouraging, empowering, enlightening and inspiring. You do realize that an influencer in today’s world is simple a marketing/advertising tool, right? It’s someone who is paid to promote items and products for the financial gain and benefit of brands that use them. Here’s the thing, before the age of the “influencer”, there was the “blogger”.
In 2009 I started blogging during my study abroad in London after a boyfriend got hooked on pain killers and broke my heart. As a coping mechanism, I decided to journal my experience dating while in London and as I did it, I realized that more than just people from home were reading my content, they were reading it all over the world. The more I wrote about sex, the more they read, and the more they read, the more I wrote about sex. The thing was, sex wasn’t as cool as fashion back in 2009, it was still really taboo. Week in and week out I wrote about sex, dating and relationships. Men began to show even more interest in me, but were apprehensive that if we were intimate that they’d end up being a story on the site. I felt like a young Carrie Bradshaw!
By the end of 2 years blogging, JustBlauMe.com was being read in over 120 countries with over a million hits a year through just google searches. I share this with you for two main reasons,
You can accomplish anything you put your mind to. Even if someone tells you it’s worthless, if you believe in yourself, and your vision, be persistent, ask opinions and take them seriously but don’t you dare let anyone stop you from achieving your dreams.
I chose not to be an “influencer” who is paid to promote products for someone else, instead I chose to pursue a career of genuinely influencing the mental health of people to become better versions of themselves.
My whole shtick back in the day was “If you don’t like me, Just Blau Me”, because so many people hated on me for doing what I loved and being confident about it. The thing I’ve come to learn as an adult is that if you’re confident and driven towards a goal you’re clear about, you will be told no, and you will be told you cannot do it. People will dislike the confidence that you have within yourself that they cannot find within them. Whether you choose to believe other people’s doubt in you, is a choice you can make. I chose to persevere forward, and while bogged down and discouraged at times by the hate and dislike of my peers, I moved onward and upward.
If you’re still reading, you may be wondering what happened to this blog of mine? Well, that is a long story for a memoire of mine some day, but the domain is now owned by a porn website so don’t go searching it. For now, it’s going to be here.
Welcome to my blog, and if you don’t like it, Just Blau Me.
