The rollover to the brand new year makes for resolutions, but sometimes, looking where you have been instead of where you want to go (not the gym) can also be the way forward, and not just for blogging.
Some drastic life changes have been thrown at me in the past few years. I finally could not face blogging as a writer. I would read my saved blogs from time to time, but couldn't comment, at least for the most part. I used the time away from blogging to work on healing, physically and otherwise.
As time passed, I wondered why I hadn't recommitted to blogging. I knew that having a focus on something would help me stand up wherever I needed to stand. In other words, put the bad stuff to the side and zero in on something to take my mind and therefore, my feelings, off the problem and on to something that would be a healthy distraction. Sort of a, "Words don't fail me now" mindset.
That's all well and good, but it didn't work. If you could see the room in my house where all the arts and crafts stuff await, you might think I need no excuse for tucking in to the boxes, paints, papers, beads, and jars. All that inspiration is overload sometimes.
Some of the problem was that I didn't know if I wanted to start again. I missed connecting with other bloggers, but didn't have the energy to keep in touch. On the other hand, I need to finish what I start or bring it to a satisfying last post, not just drift away.
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Where to start?
I have a stick-to-it-ness that has helped me through the years. I don't give up unless it is without a doubt, all things tried, not able to work.
Just last month I fixed the bed frame that "couldn't" be fixed and saved more than a hundred dollars by not giving up. Not bragging, just saying, sometimes where there's a will, there's a way. I have the bruises to prove it.
