Live Your Life Be Free!

Well, I broke my 71-daily-post-straight chain yesterday due to unexpectedly being away from the computer last night. I decided to take this opportunity to write about what I’ve learned in the last 71 days:

1. It is difficult to come up with a daily post. Some days I have hundreds of thoughts rushing at me, whereas other days, there either isn’t enough time, or there isn’t enough inspiration – sad. Now that I think of it… trying to make every day inspirational is a worthy goal so if posting motivates that – I am cool with doing more posting.
2. I am seriously considering splitting up this blog between personal and marketing/professional. My traffic for professional posts seems to be different and I would have more creative freedom with my personal posts this way.
3. A colleague was commenting on how public my life is since I started my blog… But it isn’t… I leave lots of names out, both professionally and privately. I also don’t talk much about whoever I am dating (which isn’t hard right now because it’s no one ). So – in general my own thoughts are public, but everyone elses thoughts are private.
4. Friends and family are creating new posts for me all the time… as if I wield a certain power to write blog posts when they don’t. But… I always say that they can all have blogs too if they want to too. That is the whole point. 
5. Blogging is both better and worse than what I thought it would be. It is better for a whole host of reasons. It is worse because occasionally it feels like a job, or akin to eating grapefruits and celery when I want chocolate mousse cake.
6. It is overwhelming and sometimes intimidating to see how many great and interesting writers and thinkers there are out there.
7. Comments and e-mails enrich my posts and my thinking.
8. Sometimes I am a bit hesitant to post something because the logic is not worked out. But, often, if I have time to put the work in, this is a sign that a really good post is about to be written. 
9. It is easier to write in thematic bursts and work out the details in the comments.
10. When I am passionate about something, it doesn’t matter if it is morning or night… it doesn’t matter if I am in a good or bad mood or what I did or didn’t eat for breakfast. When I am really interested and passionate about something, the writing comes easily .
11. People I haven’t talked to in years have come out of the woodwork through the blog – which I never thought would happen. 
12. When I think too strategically about my posts… as in, how to write what no one else is writing, or how to make things hang together more thematically… it ruins it. The critical analysis blocks ideas. No wonder everyone hates Marketers LOL.
13. Being a female blogger does attract male attention – but not in a bad way.
14. It’s more fun when there are more readers.
15. I want to keep this up for a year or so. I am at a huge crossroads right now and am on the verge of some very critical life decisions. I want to make room for this part of my life, along with all of the others.