See, when I started this blog, I really just wanted a space where I could allow my ideas, thoughts, and inspirations to roam free. However, as I began exploring blogland I found so many wonderful friends involved in so many wonderful things. I yearned to be part of a community of creative minded women who love sharing their creations with each other. I began to plan and organize my days around all of the blog alongs, and almost immediately I hit a brick wall. I began to obsess about having a post for Yarn Along or completing my ICAD or having a picture for These Moments, and my ideas, thoughts, and inspirations took a back seat. I love knitting and taking pictures and drawing, but it became something I had to do instead of something I wanted to do.
This time away has helped me to reassess the reasons I started this blog. Like MJ talks about in her post, I had to ask myself...Is this blog for me or for others? The answer is that although I love that other's read my posts, the blog is for me...or at least it should be. Let's be honest, I don;t have hundreds of people hanging on my every word. I have reached out to some old friends and made some new ones that have liked what I have to say well enough that they have decided to visit regularly. I do hope to make many more new friends as time goes by, and I also do love participating in the blog alongs...but I have decided that these will have to come naturally as opportunities present themselves and not because I am forcing them to occur.
I hope that my renewed determination to refocus this blog on what it was intended to be - living my best day everyday and sharing my journey - will recreate this space into one that provides me with the avenue to express myself, and perhaps inspires the lives of others in the process.
These are my exact thoughts and what I struggle with in my blogging. I wish you luck in your quest for a better daily life and I hope to stay true to myself in my blog too
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