Changes

Becoming My Life, Revised

Hey, Y’all, and welcome to my new blog and brand- My Life, Revised. You know when I decided to start my blog back in 2015, I had no earthly idea why I was doing it. I just knew that I had some ideas that needed sharing, so I created a space that allowed me to do just that, and I called that space While I Was Busy Thinking, and I named it that because that was pretty much how I spent most of my time- thinking. Y’all might not have even known why I chose that name, and that’s on me because I certainly didn’t do a good job of sharing that bit of information. As a result, many of y’all , even some people close to me, were left to make assumptions about what it meant, while others of you, I’m sure were more like, “oh okay, that’s different”. Now here I am, five years after the fact, telling y’all the story behind the name of the blog that I just changed. Yeah, that sounds just like something I’d do. Well, I got my reason, so bear with me please.

I named my blog While I Was Busy Thinking because while I was sitting around thinking about what I wanted to do, y’all were actually out in the world doing the things l was thinking about doing, like living. Now that I think about it, I should have named my blog While Y’all Are Out There Living, I’m Over Here Busy Thinking About Living. Funny, right? All I knew was that I was 40 years old, and I was searching for something, and blogging was going to help me find it.

Let’s just be clear. In 2015 when I started, I had no idea what I was doing. I just blogged about any and everything. Some of my posts were good and some weren’t, and even though I had no clue what I was doing or where I was going, I kept at it. This might sound a little unbelievable, but there was really a voice within telling me that this is what I was supposed to be doing, and so I began to think of my blog as the place my ideas went to come to life, and while I hadn’t the slightest clue, that was not all the blog was meant for, I know that now.

As I continued to blog, I pretty much kept quiet about it. I really didn’t even tell my family about it, and the few people I did share my blog with probably grew tired of hearing me talk about it. I had that Field of Dreams mindset, “if you build it, they will come.” So I probably had about eleven people reading my posts monthly, and while I craved a following and an audience, I also feared having a following and an audience. And what’s crazy is I would find myself wondering why I had no consistent readership. In my defense, I didn’t know what the heck I was doing. That had to change.

At the time, I had no strategy, had no clear vision, and I had no idea what branding was. I was basically doing what most people without direction do, wander aimlessly. I know that while y’all have been reading this post, you have been thinking that I’ve been talking about my blog, but that’s not necessarily true, I have been talking about me. You see, I was scared to talk about my blog because I was scared to talk about myself. I didn’t promote my blog because I didn’t know how to promote myself. To further clarify, my blog lacked focus and direction because I lacked focus and direction; my blog was inconsistent and without intention because I was inconsistent and without intention, and I needed to make some changes. Don’t get me wrong, I wanted to be intentional, focused, and consistent on and off the blog. In fact, I actually thought I already possessed these qualities when the reality was that I didn’t have them, but that didn’t mean that I couldn’t possess them. I just needed to see myself differently. I had to reflect and reexamine my life to focus on areas that needed to be tweaked, and with that thought My Life, Revised was born.

I thought it only proper for me to provide you with a bit of context about who I was so you could better understand who I am, and why I think living means to undergo constant revision. My Life, Revised, the blog and the brand, is not about starting over, it’s about simply starting. Starting to make the revisions to my life right now as it is, so I can STYLE it to resemble it the way I envision it in my dreams.

I know now that While I Was Busy Thinking was my space to brainstorm for what would become My Life, Revised, and it still represents a huge part of who I am. But right now, I want you to know that you are welcome here, and I am super excited to share with you the drafts of my Life as I revise it, and I will be sharing those drafts with you as I live my life, and not as I think about living it.

Progress happens in the process.

XOXO,

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