If the last year has taught me anything, it’s that there is Joy in every single day. Even if its something small like seeing a cute puppy, or waking early enough to watch the sunrise. This past year has really helped to put things into perspective for me. Not everyday will be great, but there is always great in everyday.
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Something I have yet talk about on my blog is the exciting new adventure I’m on, of starting the process to buying my first home. I have gone back and forth about the idea of being a home owner alot over the last few months. But with the current state of the renting market, it makes way more sense to buy instead of rent. Covid has had such an impact on real estate, its really crazy how high the prices are at the moment.
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I nearly gave up on blogging, and I’m sure so many of you have too. I think so many of us bloggers go through phases of feeling like we want to quit and give up. When things don’t go our way, or we aren’t seeing the results we want its so easy to feel discouraged. Blogging is really tough sometimes, and often it feels like the joy of it gets taken away when other things are going on. And don’t get me wrong, I really love what I do. But with anything, when other aspects of life are getting on top of you, sometimes blogging has to take a back seat.
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As bloggers I feel like there is always one thing on our minds, and its how to grow your blog following. In our minds, more followers and more engagement means more success. But friend, It’s not always the case. You can have blogs that have thousands of followers and hardly any engagement and vice versa. It’s probably something alot of bloggers really struggle with. Actually, I know it’s something bloggers struggle with. Because I have been there myself. Blogs go through different periods of time where engagement and followers are high, and then there are months when they are low.
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Sometimes it can be such a struggle to have a productive day. You know those situations where you have no choice but to do the thing you put off? You’ve procrastinated far too much and now the deadline is right in front of you, and you know that there’s no more putting it off. I know we have all been in that situation more than once in our lives. Sometimes we set our selves up fail because we fail to prepare. We don’t take the necessary steps to set ourselves up to have a productive day.
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When I first started blogging, I never thought I would have blogging regrets. I remember seeing posts similar to this one, where bloggers talked about everything that went wrong in their first few months of blogging. I didn’t see myself doing anything wrong or wishing I had done things differently. But here we are! I guess with anything you do in life, naturally there are things you regret. I wouldn’t change anything about what’s happened on my blogging journey. But there are for sure some things I wish I could avoided in the process.
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If you have ever experienced writers block then you know just how annoying it truly is. There is nothing worse than knowing you need to write something but nothing is coming out of your brain. And the worst is when you keep trying and it just makes it worse. It really is a mental block, probably caused by over working your mind and not resting enough. So before I give you these ideas, please remember to take time away from blogging and life. You need to rest to be the best.
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{AD} Being bored in lockdown has given me so much more time to do blogging related lockdown activities. I have found it so hard though, to come up with lockdown activities and things to do to keep me occupied. Theres only so many times I can go on a walk, or re-watch my favourite show for the fifth time. As bloggers, we know that there are so many different things we can do to fill our time. But sometimes the tasks become so menial and boring. And the last thing you want is to get bored with blogging.
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I cannot quite believe that I re-started this blog a whole 8 months ago, and wow let me tell you blogging has taught me so much. In July 2020 I came back into blogging with no real idea of the way that I wanted my website to go. I had no plan or anything in place and just kind of went with the flow. Blogging has taught me so many wonderful life lessons, and enabled me to do some pretty amazing things so far.
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I remember like it was yesterday when I was a new blogger, I felt so overwhelmed at everything there is to learn that it made me feel very anxious. I remember seeing so many established bloggers on WordPress, thinking I want to be just like them! And here I am nearly 9 months later and I have finally now just started to find my feet with blogging. I feel like as more of an established blogger now, I really want to help and provide advice to new bloggers or bloggers who just need some help. It can be hard navigating blogging with all the other things going on in life.
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