2024: What year is it?

Lately I’ve been reflecting on time. The year is 2024. What on Earth… I simply cannot believe we’re in the year 2024 and I am in my 40’s. Just the other day I was a high school kid and then like 3 days ago I was 35. All jokes aside, time is flying and I decided I feel motivated to write again. So here I am, blogging? Journaling? I have no clue.
I just felt motivated to create something for myself again.

I stopped blogging/journaling online years ago as influencer marketing starting growing. I had carved a little way of my own in blog world and looking back, I was on the verge of making blogging a career path. Sounds so strange to type that out. I also realize how I didn’t see that growth at the time. I can be my own worst critic.

Being my own worst critic really is awful at times. I have shut many a thing down right at the point of it taking it. Example 1: my little vintage shop. That is a story for another day though. Back to the story for today. Blogging.

I really was on the path to being a content creator, but I started another path at the same time. I started a social media management agency. I decided blogging felt superficial (no clue why, because I control my content and I could have stayed authentic… sigh). Anyway, I started a social media management agency from the ground up. It was not a small task and I had so much to learn. Now here I am almost 8 years in and thinking - wow, I miss blogging! While my agency has grown into a success story, I often feel as though I fail my own creativity.

While I don’t plan on pursing the life of a blogger or a content creator, I do plan on creating content for me that is outside of my businesses. We’ll see how far it goes - sometimes my work takes all of my creativity but hey, it is good to have dreams. Right? So here I am in mid-2024 writing again.