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An opinion is a deadly weapon in our current social climate, but I think the problem isn't that we have one, it's more of what we do with it afterwards...

Challenge: Write an Opinion Post on Your Blog In today’s episode, I’m issuing you with a challenge to create a piece of content that centers around your opinion on a topic relevant to your audience. Adding your opinion to your content is such an important way to make your blog more useful to your audience, and it also makes it stand out from the crowd. Today, I’m going to share with you not only why opinion posts are so important, but I also want to give you some practical tips on how to structure your opinion post. I’m also going to give some tips on what to include in your piece of content. This is one of our monthly challenge posts, so I’m not only going to teach you how to create on opinion post, but I’m also going to challenge you to create one. Challenge: Publish your post. If you think this challenge would be interesting to your audience please link to this episode of the podcast/shownotes - we would love more bloggers to join. Once you’ve created and published your opinion post - head over to our Facebook group and look for the thread for this challenge and share the link to your content. Once you have - please check out some of the posts other people have created. Then please visit, like, comment, share,  and encourage others to do the same. Further Resources on How to Write an Opinion Post on Your Blog Facebook Challenge Group How to Write an Opinion Piece for a School Newspaper How to Write a Strong Opinion Piece How to Write an Opinion Essay Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Hey there and welcome to episode 160 of the ProBlogger podcast, my name is Darren Rowse and I’m the founder of problogger.com. A blog, podcast, event, job board, a series of ebooks and numerous other things all designed to help you as a blogger to grow your audience and make money from your blog. You can find out more about ProBlogger at problogger.com. In today’s episode, I’m going to issue you with a challenge. It’s part of a monthly series of challenges. Today’s challenge is to create a piece of content that centers around your opinion on a topic relevant to your audience. Adding your opinion into your content is such an important way to make your blog more useful to your audience but also that might get standout from the crowd, I strongly believe that. That’s my opinion. Today, I want to share with you not only why opinion post is so important but I also want to give you some practical tips on how to structure your opinion posts and also some tips on what to include in the basic content that you’re going to create for this month’s challenge. This is one of our monthly challenge shows. I don’t want to just teach you how to create an opinion post but I want to challenge you to create it and to share it with our other ProBlogger podcast listeners in our ProBlogger Challenge Group on Facebook. I will link that to our Facebook group or you can head to Facebook and do a search for the ProBlogger Challenge Group and join that group. Okay, some of you will have no problem with this particular challenge whatsoever. You have lots of opinions and you do not mind sharing them at all in your conversation but also on your blog. This is the central type of post that you create on your post, on your blog but for many bloggers, myself included, sharing your opinion is something that may not come naturally for you. I was brought up by my parents, who I love dearly, to keep my opinions to myself. As a result, it’s something that I found as a blogger took me way outside my comfort zone particularly when I first started. I was always thinking to myself as I was considering sharing my opinion, “What are other people going to think about this opinion?” “How are they going to react?” “Are they going to share their opinion?” “Will their opinion differ to mine?” I guess, for me mostly,

Bloomberg Opinion editorial board member Romesh Ratnesar presents an editorial on why efforts to curb carbon emissions are facing a growing backlash and what policymakers should do to demonstrate the benefits of the green transition.

I know everyone says that you're allowed to change your opinion but I often feel like it's not actually ok. SO I hope this episode helps you feel more comfortable with changing your opinion on things and I can't wait to hear what you think of today's episode! Your body is not the problem!