taking back the blog….
Oct 20th, 2010 by Sandy
Right now, I am reading this wonderful book, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are, by Brene Brown. I am not very far in. I have decided to take tiny steps towards reading it each night before I go to sleep.
Last night, I was reading, and it hit me. I miss this space. I know I haven’t been posting here much, and I would like to start again. So, then I got to thinking about why I haven’t been posting. I am busy, but I was always busy. This is a new kind of busy for me, though. A kind of busy that doesn’t always allow for crafty stuff to make it to the list.
And, I had it in my head that in order to have a “perfect” blog, I had to have “perfect” posts with “perfect” projects presented in “perfect” pictures and a “perfectly” clear focus. And, I, without completely intending to, had transformed my thinking about this space as a place where I could only share crafty stuff and not even all of it, only the perfect stuff.
So, I am ditching that not-so-perfect idea. I am never going to have a blog that makes any money. That was never my goal anyway. If you look back to my initial posts, I don’t even think I shared much of my crafty stuff. So, I am going to take back this space. I will still post the fun stuff I am working on, but I am going to post what’s going on with me too. That was the whole point from the beginning.
Perfection is boring!! Blogging is cyclical for me and once I accepted that and allowed myself to NOT feel guilty about it I became much more at peace with skipping a week or two here and there!
Welcome Back!
Yay! I know how you feel. Sometimes it’s hard for me to let go of the blog posts I write because I feel like I haven’t said exactly what I wanted to in the way I wanted to say it. I’m slowly realizing though, that the point of blogging for me has been a place to express myself, what I’m experiencing and have experienced and to connect with other people. And I know relationships are messy and complicated, even virtual ones so what’s the point in waiting for something to be said the “right way.” Wow, that was a long comment!