I started this blog last July after a wonderful trip to a beautiful Virginian cottage in the country. Since then, I had high hopes of posting an interesting new blog entry every week...well is it possible I have seen and heard nothing interesting since September?! (No!)
My New Year's resolution was to publish a new post each week...well, it is almost the end of January and nada...
What does this mean?
Do I have nothing to say? No, I have plenty of things to say about design!
Have I just not found my "voice"? Possibly--i.e. how "professional" should I present myself in my blog when I have a website for my business? (comments welcome smile ).
Am I just not interested? No, I am definitely interested and fascinated---not only by design in big and small ways, but about blogging in general.
Feeling guilty of not meeting my self-imposed goal, I was preparing to restate my New Year's resolutions---Note: new goals starting in February!...when I read the new issue of Rue. The Editor's Letter set me right again. I must belong in the blogosphere, because apparently there was a revolution this year against New Year's resolutions!!
Hallelujah!
Apparently, bloggers starting with Design for Mankind's Erin Loechner, began publishing their non-goal posts! Hurray! I can do that! The message that is circulating is to start the year listing the things you are doing right---not listing what you should've, could've, aught to do....Here is my list of what I love about myself, my life and my circumstances:
1. I'm proud of myself for achieving my goals last year: setting up my website and blog; continuing to expand my business; managing and overseeing the details of designing and building our beach house; starting and maintaining a new fitness routine and running program.
2. I have a wonderful family life: a caring husband, with whom I could happily be stranded on a desert island and never be bored; my handsome son who has given me a run for my money since puberty, but who never ceases to amaze in how openly he can communicate with me. My two stepdaughters, who welcomed Jack as their brother from day one of our marriage. Our two, gorgeous newfs from whom we derive such parental pleasure!
3. I feel grateful for my current circumstances and the people in my life. I have been working to show my gratitude and to keep connections in small ways: endeavoring to stay in touch with friends through email and snail mail, writing thank you letters and sending birthday cards, taking extra time with my mother, caring for and maintaining my home, being responsive, gifting and contributing thoughtfully.
All in all, when I look over my list, I realize that I tend to pin myself into a time box with hard, self-imposed deadlines ---instead of making changes as part of a process or journey. My accomplishments have all come about, not from creating a false deadline and meeting it, but by doing little things over the course of the year. As the saying goes "How do you eat an elephant?..One bite at a time". Given this self-discovery, my new and revised blogging goal this year is to publish more posts than I did last year. I know I can do that! I somehow feel elated and excited by this challenge versus my original goal of publishing one post per week. I know I am on the right path! Happy 2011!!!!
