If you have been a follow of mine for a while now. You may have just noticed that I completely deleted everything off my blog. I removed every single post that I have ever posted since 2016. Deleting it off my blog completely.
I did this after leaving my blog abandoned for almost 9 months. I have not blogged or posting on social media in that time. I became defeated and uninspired. It didn’t help when COVID-19 hit this year. I was forced into lockdown not once but twice in my state of Victoria Australian. I found myself remote learning six of the eight children in my home. Which took up a large part of my time.
Lockdown made me rethink everything about my blog. The image I was putting out there of myself and the information I was providing to my small following I had gathered over the last four years. As I looked over what I had been doing I realised, blogging had become something I began to avoid.
Honestly I wasn’t avoiding blogging because I had lost interest, but because I wasn’t being true to myself and who I was as a person. I become so focused following along with the bigger bloggers and what they where doing. That I forgot that this was my blog. I wasn’t posting what I wanted and I wasn’t attracting the following that I wanted either. Instead I was following trends and trying to keep up, rather than staying in my own lane and enjoying my own journey.
That is when I unlocked a Mindset Block
That is why I deleted every single one of the 120 post I had every published off my blog. I cleared out the 38 drafts in my drafts folder and have started again. This time being myself and showing who I truely am.
I have changed what I am focusing on, or have niched down in blogging terms. My areas of focus have actually changed and evolved since I first started blogging. While I still want to provide help and support to other mums out there who are struggling. The areas that I can help them in have shifted. I am trying to solve my own problems and want to share my journey. As I am learning I want to help other by sharing what I learn along the way. In my own style and language.
If you are a blogger reading this post and are wondering if you should delete everything and start over. This little post is hopefully giving you the final inner voice permission and mindset shift to go right ahead and hit that delete button. You can hit the reset and begin again. Take what you have learnt from your time blogging and start over with something that will be so much better and have more of your passion.
You haven’t failed, you have just been learning.
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