Facebook memories are always good for reminding you what you were doing on this day in 2008. For me, bringing up a snowy weather forecast on the week before Christmas in 2009. Another was spotting the joy in everyday situations during the pandemic year of 2020.
In today’s blog, I’m going back to 2019. It was a time when I had big plans for my newly launched platform. I put together a list of ten things people should know about my blog as a PowerPoint presentation. I didn’t do this as a speech but for my own personal records. My blog was new and I should learned early on that everyone starts small. That’s what I said in my speech when I commemorated the five year anniversary on my blog in my speech on November 20.
Just as I got excited about 2020 and hoped that it would be a repeat of the previous year, life happened. COVID hit and everything was cancelled. I still blogged but I came back down to earth and cut my content down to 15 or 16 posts a month. That’s still a lot of content but in early 2020, I was on cloud nine. By the end of the year, I was doing very little content.
The excitement that I built up in 2019 was fleeting and I should have seen the warning signs. No one knew a pandemic was coming though. I was excited and a little too overconfident. I shot too high in January and February and got myself burned but I was still determined, nonetheless.
Even though I didn’t stick to the original script, I’ve been very successful with my blog. It’s more of a day in the life platform though I’d love to do other things as my life isn’t that interesting. That makes it hard to find good content to post sometimes.
This blog was developing while everything was shut down. One thing I could have done with it would be to provide an encouraging word or write a blog post once a week. I’d do this just to remind people that it’s OK to be afraid.
I went through my seasons during the initial stages of the pandemic. These coincided with my Toastmasters journey just after I achieved my Distinguished Toastmaster award. These also tie in to my journey as well. If you know you know.
Five years and 700 blogs later, I’m pleased with how this writing journey has turned out. Can I do better? Absolutely. Is there anything I wouldn’t change? Well, they always say to be true to yourself and not to change for anyone.
As I prepare my speech Wednesday, I’ll take that feedback and apply it to make my blog stand out more.
700 blogs and writing!
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