There are times when you take on more than you can handle, set goals you can’t reach or no longer connect with why you started to do something in the first place. Sometimes you have to hit pause, rethink your thought behind what you are doing & start again.
When I started Her Simple Home, we were 8 months into a pandemic, my husband was away & I had this great idea to take a fun blog course & make a blog. I wrote out my WHY & then got to work. I wanted to share the things I was learning & creating in the hopes of encouraging others to do the same. I set a goal to write two posts a week & for a month – I did. Then I started to miss my goal. I was writing and posting less, & became discouraged. Quickly realizing I had taken on a bit more than I could handle, I needed to rethink how I was going to move forward & start again.
Taking Time To Pause
In mid-January I hit pause. I knew I wanted to continue writing but felt my WHY was changing. I no longer felt the same about my original reason for writing and sharing. I felt I was simply trying to mirror what everyone else was doing but that wasn’t me. I didn’t want to just blog about home-making tips, I wanted to share a collection of my thoughts about my personal journey.
Rethink
The internet is full of people sharing recipes, their perfectly staged homes & the latest DIYs. You see it on Instagram, YouTube, blogs – it is everywhere & it always looks perfect. I am not perfect. Life is messy & beautiful. I wish people showed a little bit more of the messy. I want Her Simple Home to be a collection of stories, thoughts, lessons & struggles as I strive to live a simple life. It will be full of ups and downs, the pictures won’t always be perfect, there will probably be some spelling errors but it will be a better reflection of me.
Start Again
So here I am starting again and who knows maybe in a year I will find myself sitting down and doing this again and that is okay. Life is full of growth and change, and Her Simple Home will be a reflection of that. So where some people would delete all their old content I am keeping it. I want to be able to look back and see the changes & growth. This will be a space with a simple collection of my stories, struggles, joys & lessons learned.