Why do I suddenly feel like I’m a college junior and the time has come when I have to declare a major? Up until now, I’ve skated by dipping my toes into different niches, but if I’m going to meet and exceed my goals in 2012, it’s time for me to get down to business. As if my own goals weren’t enough to motivate me, the investments I’m making by deciding that I will be attending Blissdom are definitely a wake-up call that my actions on my blog aren’t currently meeting my dreams.
One month from today, I will be leaving BubbaMack Daddy with the kids for four days while I jump on a plane and fly to Nashville. No, it’s not like I’ll be sipping Mai Tai’s on a beach while they’re sitting at home, but it IS the biggest step I’ve made in this crazy career path called blogging. I will no longer be a mom sitting behind her screen in the wee hours of the morning rambling, I will be going to soak in as much information as I possibly can in an effort to find the focus that I know I need and the ways to get all of these thoughts swimming in my head onto the information superhighway in language that doesn’t sound like I’ve been awake for days and I’m on my third bottle of wine for the night.
The problem is, there are several “tracks” and it sounds like there are going to be different gatherings depending on which niche our blogs fall into. The scary thing there is that I feel like the theatre major whose friends have all declared pre-med as their major. The connections I have made to this point are primarily in a niche different from anything I would classify myself as at this point in life. So, if I’m to follow my track for BubbaMack, I’m going to be walking into rooms where I know no one. I will see my “friends” in passing and during mixers, but then it’s a matter of finding them in a sea of strangers.
Honestly, I have no clue what I’m going to do at this point when I get to Nashville. I did have a moment of clarity tonight regarding my own blog as I was designing new business cards. I still need to work out the details before I’m ready to announce what I want to do in 2012, but I think it’s going to be fun.
Wow, maybe I need to start blogging in the morning rather than last thing before I go to bed! This probably makes sense to no one other than me!
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Congrats on making it to the conference. I wish there was one closer I could attend. I also want to say your lucky if you have found a niche I also am still looking. Hopefully soon I will find mine too.
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