I decided to write in my dining room today.
I had planned on going into my office, as is normal in the afternoon, plop down at my work station with a cup of tea and some Hershey Kisses and write.
Well, sit down to write.
I don’t always write.
I usually set up Pandora.
Check my emails.
Check Facebook.
Open up a page to write.
Check bloglovin
Well, you get the idea.
I have been doing very well with my goal to blog daily Monday-Thursday. I have been recording daily podcasts (save for completely forgetting yesterday) and I feel very rooted in my current blog infusion.
A year and a half ago I was made aware that my life would be changing.
Actually my job was just going away but for me that meant an opportunity to live the creative life I wanted.
I got back into reading blogs, finding fellow creatives and prepared for the journey that was to come.
There have been many different versions of this site. Different purposes, different goals.
The truth is I am still trying to figure out just what I hope this site to be.
I want to touch people’s hearts.
I want to inspire you.
I want you to believe in yourself, your abilities.
I want people to see more than just the grossness that’s on television.
I want there to be hope.
I want there to be love.
I want to be around people who don’t say things like, “yea well places like that don’t exist anymore.” or “you mean you want to live in Mayberry.”
I believe that life can be whatever we desire it to be.
I believe that reality, in a large part, is simply a manifestation of what we focus on.
So how does that become a blog?
How does something like that turn into something that not only can reach people, touch them, inspire them but also be sustaining?
Damn if I know.
So I really don’t know where I am going.
I have no idea exactly where I will end up.
But I know what it feels like there.
I know how warm the sun is and how brought the faces are of the people that live there.
So for now I am going to set about with little baby goals, work with people who’s approach matches my own, who inspire me, who light me up with their giant smiles and big hearts and openness.
I will do the work involved with realizing my dream.
I will also probably complain about it along the way.
I will share, a bit more of myself each and every blog post.
I will let people in.
I will offer a twin spirit for which you can see, perhaps, a bit of your own journey in me.
I will make mistakes.
I will not finish some projects and will complete others in rapid order.
I had read some advice from Leonie Dawson a while ago.
She talked about how you had to bare your soul in your blog.
How you need to pour it all out on the pages.
The rebel in me said, “nah, I’ll find another way.”
The other day I stumbled upon a video she posted with the same advice.
And for some reason my rebel didn’t stand up and protest.
It seemed, to be true for me now.
So, this is my journey.
Want to join me?
Until next time….