I Forgot How to Blog

***Before you read this please know this is not a post for pity. Or a post bragging about how busy I am (because I’m really not at all). It’s hopefully a kick in the pants to get my blogging in gear.

Hey. What’s Up. Hello. Hello to my little blog space. It’s seems like I’ve forgotten what blogging is and how to do it.

I’ve felt convicted lately for not blogging as often as I would like. This one blog post a week is not satisfying the blogger/writer part of my soul. Sure I’ve posted two recaps, one of my austin trip and the other of a mountain getaway, but that’s just for the sake of remembering. I’m not sure why I can’t make blog posts happen.

I think it’s because I sleep in too late (7 a.m. woo hoo). Then I spend a good 15 minutes perusing instagram and facebook and seeing what everyone else is doing with their lives. I move my business to the dining room where I sip on coffee and decide what I want for breakfast.

Before I get done looking through Pinterest my day job as a working farmer’s daughter begins. My daylight hours are spent driving a tractor and occasionally being a “mechanic.”

Maybe I can’t make blogging happen because I started a photography business and have found myself researching photography business “to-do’s” and trying to push through the hundreds of photos I have to edit.

Or it could be that I like to go to CrossFit. So I spend a good hour trying to count how much weight I have on a barbell and concentrating on how I need to stay on my heels as I front squat.

Then as the evening progresses I move on to read the blog posts and words of others. My eyes feast on the beautiful images that others are capturing, posting, and creating. My mind races through your posts about what you did this weekend or how I can do x better.

Then I’ve convinced myself I need to start reading before I go to bed. Once again I dive into the words of others. I lose myself in the world they have created. 

Then I decide it’s time for me to create. It’s time to write a blog post. I open up Google Docs and stare at that dreadful white screen. Five seconds later I’m shutting my laptop down for the night. My brain power is down to zero and the heaviness of my eyes convinces me to go to sleep.

I have two conclusions: One is that I’m so consumed with consuming that I don’t spend enough time creating.  The other is that I have a case of “summer brain” meaning I have pretty low motivation that prevents me from wanting to blog.

So dear readers and blog friends thank you for staying with me this long if you have. Hopefully this post will remind me how to blog and why I love to do it.

What’s something you love to do, but haven’t been doing enough of lately?