BeyondBehaviors.Com’s New Blog Focus

About 21 months ago (Feb. 2006), when I first had the idea of doing a website/blog, one of my goals was to set up a classroom management resource page to assist the teachers and school staff in the Northern Mariana Islands’ public school system with behavioral/classroom management issues. Back then it was called SteveNguyenOnline.Com.

About a year later (Feb. 2007), I started the site you’re visiting now, BeyondBehaviors.Com, because I wanted to cover more topics and take the focus off of me and my life. In the past 9 months, this blog has gone through many changes, both cosmetically (in terms of templates) and contentwise. I noticed that the site started tackling Traumatic Stress, Crisis Intervention, and School Crisis Response much more. And while this was fine, I also felt that it made the site too serious and gloomy.

My biggest struggle was that I didn’t want to just talk about crisis intervention or traumatic stress. Instead, I wanted to talk about more uplifting topics like achieving your best, emotional well-being, and transforming your life (like those covered in Oprah’s “O” Magazine).

For about 4 months I went through this “blogging identity crisis.” I felt that I was losing my way, blogwise. I was struggling to keep the site fresh and even more importantly I felt that what I had to say and share were becoming stale.

After doing some research I came across Lorelle on Wordpress’ tips about Finding Your Blog Focus. This is what Lorelle had to say:

If you cannot find your blog focus or passion - and you are still clueless as to how focus your blog, blog what you know. Blog what you are an expert in.

I don’t believe it when people say “I don’t know anything”. That’s crap. We all know something. We all got here somehow, someway, and learned a few things along the way. Things we wanted to learn, and things we didn’t, but something kept us going until we reached this point.

Look at all of those things, tasks, skills, abilities, and techniques, and pick one to three of them. Do they feel right? Could you talk about them non-stop for the next three years? If not, keep looking.

What gets you excited? What do you look forward to? What inspires your muse? Inspires you? Motivates you? What do you keep repeating over and over again in your life? Or in your day?

So, with those nuggets of wisdom, I sat down and reassessed what it is that I wanted BeyondBehaviors.Com to be, to say, to represent.

Drawing inspirations from Oprah’s O Magazine as well as my own mental health training and experience (and under the guidance gathered from Lorelle’s Finding Your Blog Focus), this blog will now cover (1) Improving your Emotional Well-Being and (2) Transforming your Life.

Use categories such as Children/School Crisis, Emotional Health, Resources and/or Traumatic Stress/ Crisis to find subjects like Classroom Management, Traumatic Stress, Crisis Intervention, etc.

You can read more about this new blog focus on BeyondBehavior’s About Page and if you’re really curious, you can see what inspires me by reading my Philosophy page.

I hope that you will bear with me as I apply Og Mandino’s Scroll #9 “I Will Act Now” towards making BeyondBehaviors.Com a site that will help others to “Improve their Emotional Well-Being and Transform their Lives.”