Six months into 2019 and I am happy that I didn’t make any New Year resolutions this year. Why? Because I wouldn’t have been able to keep up. Generally, every year my resolutions are pertaining to the blog and I have been very lazy this year. I am taking everything slow.
Not according to the plan
At the beginning of the year, I felt enthusiastic and planned to write 3 blog posts weekly. I couldn’t keep up. Suddenly it felt like a task due to the meticulous planning. Until now I would write with pleasure, suddenly it became daunting to keep up with writing. I was also at the loss of ideas. In these 6 months, March was the only fruitful months in terms of writing. Thanks to the Festival Of Words. Otherwise, there has been a lull. That’s when I even wrote What Are The Ways To Beat The Writer’s Block, but couldn’t follow my own advice. Talk of, ‘Practice before you preach’!
Reading Challenge
When 2019 began, I decided I will read more this year and took up the Write Tribe reading challenge but have not been able to read as much. Though I don’t have a huge target so I hope to achieve it by year end but yes, I am lagging way behind as of now.
Social Media
Another decision that I had made this year to be more active on Instagram and grow my following. But being constantly on social media and sharing every small detail became overwhelming for me. I found it extremely difficult to click pictures especially for posting on Instagram. I found that I was not being my true self. Being real and relevant to social media suddenly became a farce. The irony isn’t it!
Top it up with challenges on a personal front
Last one month has been a month of facing many personal challenges. That again became a deterrent and I could not concentrate on writing. I also took a break for a month from writing for My Paper. I wasn’t in the right frame of mind to create quality content for Children.
Don’t know what I am talking about, Read about My Paper- A Newspaper For children.
Zombie Blog Hop
The discussion to revive zombie blogs on Write Tribe what’s app group reminded me of the Word of the year that I choose for myself – Self Belief. Once again, my favourite Write Tribe people came to my aid. And here I am participating in the blog hop, hoping that this post gives me an impetus to keep up with my plan of writing 3 blog posts weekly beginning today. And that I do it with interest and do not consider it to be a task at hand.
How’s your 2019 shaping up? Do let me know. Also, read other blog posts by my blogger friends.
I received this tag from Shilpa and I am passing this on to Vinitha. 24 bloggers have got together to celebrate six months of 2019 from June 17-19. In their unique ways, they will share what the last six months mean to them. In these 24 posts, you will find a lot of joy and hope. Not to forget, some humour and stories too. So don’t forget to read these all and share some love.
Had to edit the blog post as I have to mention few achievements of Aesha’s Musings too because those too happened in the first Six months of 2019.
Aesha’s Musings got featured as One of the Top Lifestyle blogs on FeedSpot . Yay!!
Along with being on the Directory of Top Indian Blogs for the third consecutive year.
So do keep coming back to read more on Aesha’s Musings because that is what motivates me to write quality, relatable content for my readers.