If At First You Don’t Succeed – Blog Again.

We’ve all heard the old saying … “If at first you don’t succeed, try again.” And if your mom was the dramatic type, you heard … try, TRY again!

I’ve updated that saying to … If at first you don’t succeed, blog again.

For the past five years at my old blog, I blogged whenever the mood struck me. As this website was being designed, I couldn’t wait for it to be finished. I looked forward to blogging regularly (and I knew I’d enjoy every minute of it).

Now that I’d invested money into blogging and it’s officially part of my work — speaking and getting a book published. I knew I’d have no trouble getting serious about it. I was sure that as soon as my new digs were up, I would have no trouble blogging regularly. Words would just flow out of me.

I thought about blogging regularly. I thought about making up a schedule for when I would write. And when I would put new posts up. I read sites about the way to build up blog traffic. (which soon confused me, so I quit reading them) I made a half-hearted attempt at making a list of topics I would blog about. My coach told me to select only five or six main ones — that’s hard because I am interested in everything. Well, almost everything, I’ll pass on dust-mites, vampires and Nascar.

In other words, I only dreamed.

I forgot to put concrete plans and a schedule to those dreams. This site’s been up a month and there’s not near as many posts up as I thought there would be.

Plus real life intervened … there are plenty of ‘good’ reasons why I didn’t get around to writing posts.

I injured my foot. And pain is distracting, making it much easier to read other’s blogs or catch up on Facebook, then focus on writing. Take meds for the pain, you say. Yes, I did and the meds befuddled my mind. You don’t expect me to write like that, do you?

Then it was vacation time. I can’t really write while on vacation. I don’t want to burn myself out. I needed to relax and enjoy the moment.

So here I am … on the back-to-school day for my family. Each year on this day, I get super-organized. (I’ve already cleaned my kitchen and organized my closet) And it’s time to make a blogging schedule and a plan … to blog, BLOG again.

I remind myself  … I haven’t failed unless I give up trying.

Any areas of your life where you need to try, try again?