Well, hello again blog! It’s been a while. November 16th was my last post on here, and it feels forever ago. I decided to take an unplanned break because I just needed to reassess some things. My life in general, but also where I was even going with this blog. In my last post, I was talking about feeling exhausted and overthinking and overanalyzing everything in my life. Feeling that way ultimately led me to make the decision to step back from the blog, and not return until I had figured some stuff out.
In my mind, I wasn’t prioritizing the blog enough. Even though I love writing and creating on here, I just felt like I wasn’t putting my best out there. I felt like I was resorting to easy blog posts about what I was buying and doing, amongst other things, and while there were some posts I was proud of, I don’t know, I just wasn’t proud of overall where I was going. And the thing is, I had no idea where I was going. The lack of direction and commitment started to take a toll on me. I didn’t grow to resent this blog, I just wasn’t giving it as much as I thought I should. Writing has always been something that comes easy to me, and I was taking advantage of that and wasn’t challenging myself. Waiting till the last minute to write a blog post, waiting the morning of to actually post and edit it, I didn’t like where I’d gotten myself in relation to the blog.
Telling myself “Oh, I’ll write it tomorrow,” and procrastinating each blog post, I got to the point where I needed to take a break. Step back and figure out where I was going, and if this blog was something I wanted to continue pursuing.
Taking that month and a half off was what I needed. There was already a lot going on, and I didn’t need the added pressure of writing blog posts that I wasn’t fully invested in at the time. I allowed myself to miss writing, and figure out where I wanted to go with this blog. I want to challenge myself more, and I realized how much I loved personal development in the last month (thank you Matt D’Avella for reminding me.) I did a challenge that I’ll share in an upcoming blog post, but doing that challenge made me want to do more like that, and it’s something I want to incorporate more of this year.
I want to be more committed to this blog and write posts that aren’t an easy cop out for the week, but it actually takes some thought. I liked the content I was creating, but I wasn’t putting as much into it as I probably should. That will be one of my goals for this New Year, to take this blog more seriously and grow with it.
It was really good taking a step back. It allowed me to think of this blog as something I wanted to do, not what I had to do. I look forward to the content I’ll be creating, and coming back into the swing of things! Thanks for stopping by today, I know it’s been a while! I hope you all have an amazing New Year’s weekend wherever you are <3 It feels so good to be back!
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