Show Your Work (Building my website)

If we want to be heard or be recognized, one thing that we need to do is to show our work.

People have their own different skills and talents and most of them remain hidden because they are not showing up or no one helps them to show their skills.

When social media platforms existed it sparked people with hidden talents to become instant celebrities. In other words the internet and social media gives them an opportunity to show their work.

This platform for example is another way for us to show our work and be heard. If you can remember your first grade teacher telling you to show your work to the class then that is what I am trying to emphasize.

Some people don’t like to show their work to other people. My 12-year old daughter, for example, would not want me to see her work projects in school. The reason was that she thinks her work is not beautiful to look at. So I would remind her that showing your work is important because you will never know if you are doing it the right way. In addition people will have a chance to give their opinion about your work.

Afraid of Criticism

The reason some people don’t want to show their work is that they are afraid of criticism. Sometimes I tend to have this attitude, you know like being offended when I receive negative feedback about my work but I don’t take it too personally.  Most people would feel the same way if they receive destructive criticism. But we must understand that not all people would agree with our work. There is always someone who would disagree. What is frustrating is that sometimes our own family would be the first to dislike our work.

Low self-esteem and no self confidence are just a few attributes of a person who doesn't want to show his work to other people.

Remember that no matter how beautiful our work is, someone will always look at it as ugly. People have different perspectives to what is normal. The most famous Picasso painting may look ugly to people who do not know about art thus criticizing the painting as dull as if no sense in appreciating a hard work.

I always mention in my previous posts about building my own website. Perhaps if you have been reading my posts since you subscribed you might think that I am just bluffing because I am not showing my work. I honestly am kind of afraid of criticism, that is why I am not giving you a link to my personal website.

You may think that building your own website is just a crap especially if you have nothing to put in there. Actually there are a lot of benefits of having your own personal website these days and one of which is applying for a job. There is a high percentage that you will be hired if the employer knows that you know how to manage a website.

Anyway before I end this post let me share you screenshots of my personal website. This is still a work in progress so I will not be sharing you the link for now.

Note that I don’t know about web hosting, all the knowledge I learned about building a website are all self thought and trial and error.

This website is experimental so I am keeping it to myself for now although it is already live. I did not use cryptocurrency to pay with it because you know earning BitcoinCash here these days is quite slow. I used may Paypal to shoulder the transaction.