I had so much to say over the past few weeks, so I spilled it all on these “pages” of the internet. (I love it when you join me here. Thank you for that.)
This year, I am giving myself permission to write only when I feel like it & step away when I don’t. Oddly enough, that has given me freedom & joy to write even more.
Funny how life works that way.
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p.s. if I gave myself permission to not eat vegetables, do you think I’d eat more?
p.p.s. nah, probably not.
Smart girl!
Yeah, I don’t think it works that way
Nom Nom Nom vegetables 
Very well said, sweetie… I totally know how you feel.
I am just “back”(literally, this week) from a several-month-long, self-imposed blogging hiatus. Taking that break and deciding that I was only going to write when I wanted to, and that I was going to do it just for me, has made me remember why I started doing it in the first place. I wrote a post all about my reasons for wanting to blog and wanting not to do it, and how expectations got in the way of something that I truly enjoyed. I can only imagine the pressure that you feel, seeing as how I felt it and have only a handful of readers, mostly people who know me IRL.
Like you said, I’m finding that I actually want to write a lot more now, feeling like I have the freedom to step away from it if I want.
But the vegetable thing totally worked for me…I am broccoli’s new #1 fan since my husband stopped getting on my case about trying it every single time we have the “what’s for dinner” talk. When he finally shut up about it, I tried it, and liked it. Showed him.
funny you should say this… i *just* did the VERY same thing… i took a week off and told myself that if i wanted to return, i could… and within a day, i had all kinds of great ideas for posts… i just needed to stop feeling like my blog needed to be x, y, and z, so that it could grow and be successful. it’s not successful if it becomes a chore… which is what it was well on its way to becoming.
so after that week, i had a new sense of open-ness and cheerfulness about writing.
permission is a lovely thing.
I’m so with you!!! I was struggling with coming up with topics every day, and I finally just decided…nothing to write? I ain’t writing! It’s freeing an amazing
Thank you for this! I was in a similar boat (not the same as I only have a small but loyal readership) and was feeling pressured to perform. This week I took a few days off and started to feel a lot of relief. From now on I’ll only post things I love and thoughts that I really feel compelled to share.
On the vegetable front I recommend joining a CSA. It’s a great way to force yourself to not only eat more vegetables but to eat a wider variety of them. This only works if having the vegetables will make you want to eat them because otherwise it was a waste of money though so ymmv.
I totally wish it worked that way with vegetables. It never seems to, but it does always seem to work with chocolate!
Love your blog!
Ashley
http://thetownhousechronicles.blogspot.com
Yeah! Proud of you!
I’ve been doing the same thing, and while I haven’t been posting as much, I’ve been feeling like my blog is less of an inconvenience and rediscovering the initial passion and fun I found in it!