As the Covid years recede, will personal blogging see a resurgence? This blogger hopes so. I've been telling myself for 2 hours now to just start typing.From the lounge, I can hear Steve talk himself through finding a lost airline...
As the Covid years recede, will personal blogging see a resurgence? This blogger hopes so.
I've been telling myself for 2 hours now to just start typing.
From the lounge, I can hear Steve talk himself through finding a lost airline receipt as he does his monthly receipt reconciliation.
I need a cup of tea. But I've had 3 already this morning. The last one was cold, I should get up and make another.
But what if no one reads?
But what if I sound whiney crazy?
But
But
But.
So the thought process behind writing blog posts hasn't changed in a few years.
I wish I could go back to the easy days, when I had no idea that 400 page views a day was actually awesome numbers for a little old blog that shared scrapbook pages.
Now my brain churns.
It's been so long since I've written.
In 2019, life was busy, wrapping my head around a small part time job and the juggle of kids and work and volunteering and life.
Then 2020 hit, and I pretty much spent the next two years in flight mode while putting out raging bushfires in my volunteer roles (and unceremoniously losing my job at the end of 2020)
2023 feels like something new.
I've been able to hand some of my volunteer responsibilities to an awesome team who are paid to do that work, allowing me the space to focus on the being rather than the doing.
I'm finally making time to prioritise the important things to me, while ensuring the balls bounce instead of break (and that the balls I'm juggling are still the important ones to keep aloft)
And that leads me to today.
When 2023's chosen One Little WordŽ is SELF, actually doing the thing is an important part of the making time process.
As an Obliger, I'd like to say that it will stick this time, but external accountability in the form of social media sharing doesn't seem to be what makes me show up. But, committing to a meeting at 10am on Thursday, or hosting a zoom meeting on Monday, or publishing a blog post at a specific time is something I can and do show up for.
So, that's what I'm going to do this year.
Consider it an experiment at remembering to do the thing, to become the thing.
For now, I'm just going to focus on getting the words out.
Later, I can get caught up in themes, and being an expert, and taking photos, and all the other stuff that was fun sometimes but not really.
Who knows, I might be good at this stuff?!
Further reading
The Verge - Bring Back Personal Blogging
Suger Coat It - Why I think 2020 will see the return of the personal blog
