Happy Crazy-Almost-the-Middle-of-December!

I know what you’re thinking.

Who can think about blogging in 2015 right now?

It’s the craziest time of the year!

But really, I have a little gift for you.

Or a gift you can give yourself.

Here it is:

Grab yourself a cup of coffee and a piece of paper. If you have only ten minutes, you can still set yourself up for a successful new year of blogging!

Remember how for the last three months I have been unpacking my talk on Story Living for Story Telling? Well, now you get to dream about what stories you want to live and tell in 2015!

Come on, it will be fun, I promise!

Blog Dreaming

If you have 10 MINUTES:

Write this down:

In 2015,

I want to blog _______ (number of times) per ______ (week/month).

Be reasonable. But writing it down helps you make it happen!

My favorite blog posts to write are about ______________________ (food/my kids/travel/running).

This will help you remember to write about what you love, and more importantly, to DO what you love. 

If you have 20 MINUTES:

Also (in addition to the above) write this down:

One thing I can do to make blogging fun this year is ____________ (go rock climbing for the first time, meet up with other bloggers, buy a new camera, bake a new kind of cupcake every week).

You might want to make a list of several things that come to mind, but then circle the ONE that you really want to make happen.

The steps towards making this happen are __________ (call rock climbing companies, create a Facebook group, ask my family for a camera for Christmas, buy a cupcake cookbook)

Get practical.

If you have 30 MINUTES:

(In addition to the above) write this down:

One way that I can be a better blogger this year is _____________ (use Twitter or Facebook more, comment on other blogs more, always blog/write on Thursday afternoons, find a sponsor to help me accomplish a goal)

One thing I can let go of that will help me to enjoy blogging more is ________________ (use Twitter or Facebook less, stop reading blogs that make me jealous, letting go of a sponsorship I don’t really believe in)

As you can see from the examples, what might make you a better blogger could be the thing that is holding me back. (Hello YouTube.)

I loved this quote from Alli Worthington at AWBU this year:

What you say NO to determines what you can say YES to.

It’s so true. So give yourself a minute to determine what you need to let go of.

Ok, now whether you spent 10 minutes or 30 minutes, take your piece of paper and tape it up somewhere where you will see it when January rolls around.

Now go and enjoy your Christmas season! I’ll see you back here in January to talk more about blogging in 2015!

XO

Alison