One of the reasons my blog has been so neglected is because I had this idea (from the blogosphere) that your blog should somehow be making you money. Each post has to be carefully crafted, search engine optimised, sponsored and "monetising". Apparently, the reason we blog should be all about stopping the day job and making money. I'm stepping away from that idea. With that in mind, I've hesitated to blog, because I didn't have quite the right picture. I wasn't sure that it would be quite such an appealing post. I wasn't getting thousands of likes so I should save that post until I had a bigger audience. Its actually stopped me from enjoying my blog as I did at the beginning, when I just used it as an online journal. Right now, I just want to get back to the daily habit of writing, unburdening, scribbling my thoughts. There may be a photo or picture to accompany my words, there may not. I may share my post through social media channels, I may not. I might get twenty readers, or 100, or none. I don't care. I just want to write regularly because it makes me feel good. I think this might even be turning into a New Year resolution, though I absolutely won't beat myself up if I don't do it. I have enough things on my to-do list with people relying on me and looming deadlines. I'll beat myself up about those ones instead.
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