Shirley de Rose's Weblog

Well, I did it. I took a vacation from blogging just to see how it would effect my life. Several things occurred:

1. I felt guilty because I wasn’t blogging regularly, as if it were some sort of obligation.
2. I didn’t have a million emails asking me why I stopped.
3. I have a delightful pile of topics now that I can compose essays about, essays somebody might actually read someday.
4. I don’t need to be shy about saying to the world, “Hey, come read my blog. You might discover something interesting!” In fact, being shy is what has held me back all along.
5. I’m just like 98% of all other bloggers. We find it fascinating that in just one push of the “return” key we can send some idea into cyberspace but we don’t have the dedication to do it often enough to count for much. Just like most other things in Life, blogging lost its appeal once it became a “requirement.”

So, while I have been dally-ing around with a “vacation” from blogging I’ve watched my husband’s daily dedication to his SEO blog take him to an Alexa ranking of 169,428 and people calling him or emailing him for advice on not only SEO but other topics too.

I guess the greatest lesson I learned is to just keep writing. It is what I was meant to do in Life, and, guess what, I have an in-house (literally) mentor to offer guidance.

Now where did I put that pile of stickies with topics I wanted to write about?

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