More Thoughts About My Blog – Hopefu Constructive

This morning I had some major thoughts about my blog.The reason I started blogging way back in 2010 was to provide a place where I could come write about the things I loved and feel better mentally about my life.

While many of the aspects of my life we’re going well, some were not. The two big areas of stress were my mother‘s health and my job.

My mother‘s health which hadn’t be good for a while (she suffered from a form of Parkinson‘s where she froze instead of shaking) continued to decline. While my job became more troublesome, after the bosses for whom I worked for 30 years, sold the business, and the new boss was clueless.

Anyway,  the two worlds collided and left me a mess. Then along came my blog. My blog gave me a chance to escape into the world of books, music and more.

Blogging By the Seat of My Pants!

When I started I didn’t know or care about SEO or  worry about traffic counts. I’d download some music  onto my Sansa MP3 player from Rhapsody listen to it on the way to and from a job site, then write a post about the music.

I used the magazines Dirty Linen and No Depression to find new music. When the print version of No Depression folded I found their website. At that time, any reader could post and they placed several of their favorites on the front page of the site. I made the front page many times and that made me feel great.

Over the next few years things were up and down. My mother passed away in 2012 and things continued to decline at my work. During the next few years each day I went to work wondering if this was the day I was going to be laid off.

In 2014 things brightened considerably with the birth of our first two grandchildren Oliver in March and Zoe in September. By August of 2015 with my unemployment benefits set to expire, I faced the prospect of either going out and looking for a new full-time job or retire and work more hours at Target. I chose the later.

So I began working more hours at Target and spending more time babysitting those two grandchildren. I mentioned earlier. And I haven’t regretted that decision!!

More Music Listening, Less Book Reading and Writing

In later part of 2014 and through 2015,  I started listening to a wider variety of music. I began to explore both  the Jazz and New Age genres in more detail. I also started listening to more Progressive Rock.

However, listening to more music and writing about it, led to less time reading and writing about books.  Finally, I’ve gotten to the point where I am listening to less music, reading more books and wanting to write a out neither!

Paralysis By Analysis Sets In

Now if you combine all of the above with a mind that over thinks things, you end up with paralysis by analysis! Which is where I am now every time I sit down to write a post I think is this any good? I think am I providing my readers anything good, anything to make their lives better! I answer no and the post never gets finished!

Returning to the Beginnings of My Blog

With  all that said let‘s get back to my original thought that this blog was created to be a place where I could write about the things I love i.e. music and books and the steps I take to make my life better!

Additionally, I want to stop my over analysis of my   blog and posts. I want to get back to writing posts that please me that help me feel good and if in turn they help you the reader feel good then that’s a bonus!

So I’m going to post this now before I over analyze it. So let’s have some fun and feel good

Finally….

(P.S. I know there are no outbound links in this post. And there are not enough subheading and I don’t care!)

P.S. 2 – The featured image is of my three grandchildren Halloween 2020 left to right Oliver, Zoe and her brother Logan”Mario or Luigi” (depending on the day) Karn