You know, a little frazzled and "hairy!" HeHe!! (This boy's got some wild hair sometimes.)
I've got so many BIG creative ideas floating around in my head and yet I'm stuck!! So...I'm working on all that and looking forward to family time for Christmas. I'm hoping once things slow down after the holidays that I'll be creating again...and blogging regularly!! I have some changes in mind....
I'm really curious how you (yes, you!) find the balance of blogging and commenting and staying focused on why.you.blog? Please share and comment...I would LOVE your feedback. I tend to be an over-analyzer and all it ends up doing is causing me to do nothing! I love blogging and really want to figure out what works for me...and why....
And now the boys and I are going to go bake some cookies! I hope to be back in a day or two to share a Christmas stocking craft...we'll see ;)
Happy Monday!!
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I'm new at this whole blog thing and have yet to get the hang of the schedule out, so if you have any tips I'd love to hear some!
yes, my mondays usually look like that, lol. :)
I'm struggling with the same thing right now - trying to figure out why I blog, how much time I should spend doing it, how much time to read and network with other blogs...along with the rest of busy life. :) I don't have it figured out - let me know if you get any good advice!
Ha! Those pictures are hilarious. =)
I usually spend an hour on the internet every day...with my coffee and breakfast, before the baby wakes up. I do whatever I can do in that hour. And I don't stress myself to post every day...more like a few times a week. I don't blog to get a lot of other people to read my blog...I just blog about things I love and are meaningful to me. I blog to show what I am doing creatively to anyone that cares...but mostly for me! I love the connections I make {like with you!} but I try not to get to wrapped up in how many comments I get -- or give! Life has enough stress, and blogging should be anti-stress, right? :) Merry Christmas!
Wow, I have so much I want to say about this but not sure if it will flow properly! I will try. Ok, so I am a new-er blogger.And when I first started blogging and getting more serious about it, I got really overwhelmed at all the gorgeous blogs out there! I felt like I was sinking in a sea of amazing blogs and that mine was crap! I was depressed actually for over a month and struggle still with it from time to time of course because we are all fallen...I felt like I wasn't creative enough, or good enough at anything compared to everyone else's blog, and I was so concerned about followers and how terrible I was at taking pictures and on and onnnnnnnnnnnn....so I had to bend the knee and get real and desperate with God to show me and give me a new perspective b/c I knew this perspective was NOT of HIM! He started speaking to me, sweetly saying, "gina, you have been more concerned about comments and what other people think than what I think..." and that hit me, that hit me hard. whoa, He was RIGHT. I am a child of the KING what am I doing caring so so much about comments, followers, or if I can sew or take good pictures or whatever! I started to focus on the gifts God has given me, and be gentle on myself with the gifts that I lack, and I learned that I AM NOT WHAT I LACK. So I started to align my thinking with the Kingdom, and decided what my blog was going to be and what it wasn't going to be. And I asked myself "Why do you blog?" I basically went before God with my blog and gave it to HIM. B/c at first I was treating it like it was MY blog and it's NOT. I knew I didn't want it to be a fashion blog, or a DIY craft blog, b/c photography isn't my strength, but that doesn't mean I'm worthless. I also thought about giveaways, and if I ever do one I'm not going to say they have to follow my blog to enter.... I started focusing on what I could bring to the world through my blog and how it would reflect God. I didn't want to feel like there was vanity all surrounding my blog...so just things like that I thought through...and I zero'd in on my gifts, not the gifts I wish I HAD. And now I am more concerned about my precious readers than followers. I appreciate followers for sure sure sure, but I started to think of it as focusing readers instead, b/c a lot of my readers don't "follow" me for whatever reason.
I have no idea if this has helped one bit or has made ANY sense, you can email me if you are totally laughing or crying or even more confused!!!! hahahaha it's all a refining process.. I think what's most important is , is "Does this look like Jesus?" And if it doesn't, then it shouldn't be on our blogs!
thank you for allowing us to comment and share our thoughts!!!
and as far as balance goes and networking, I think setting a schedule as much as possible is best for that. Just discipline, like anything else!
I totally get the "what is my blog supposed to be?" question. I just recently started focusing on blogging more, and while i LOVE it, I've also been stressed by it. I read the other comments on this post and agree wholeheartedly that I can get too caught up in followers and comments, when I should just write what I want to write, make it look the way I want it to look, and focus on capturing those precious memories and things that are happening in our life and in my heart right now.
I just found your blog, and have really enjoyed getting to know you by reading! Your family is beautiful, and I love your boys' names!
Andrea xoxo
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