My Thought Process - Coming to Terms with my Purpose for Blogging

It's been a while since I've posted something here, mainly because I've been struggling with finding my purpose for blogging and what I want to blog about.

Do I want to be a food blogger?  I don't think so.  While I would like to document recipes I try or share something really delicious that I eat I don't know that I want to be toting a camera around to be taking pictures of food all the time.  Also, I'm not going to lie but I don't eat the healthiest right now so it doesn't seem like being a food blogger is the right thing for me to do.

On that same note I don't know that I could have a blog focused on fitness.  While this aspect of my life has been improving since starting a new semester of college my workouts are nothing exciting or worth blogging entirely about.

I keep coming back to the same general feeling about what my blog is - a journal of my life.

Is this a bad thing?  No, I don't think so but I do wonder if the people that read my blog enjoy it.  When I blog I do it for me but there is a part of me that wants people to enjoy reading what I post about.

Honestly, if I could have this blog be anything I want it to be it would be a documentation of how I went from the overweight college student to the healthy, happy, young adult in the "real" world - a success story.  Ideally someone would find this and be inspired, motivated, encouraged, whatever you want to say, that they can do what I've done.  But right now I haven't been succeeding in reaching my goals so this blog is just a journal of my life and doesn't seem like it is worth the time to read.

Can this be a journal of my life?  Yes!  But I want it to be a journal of my life on the road to a healthy lifestyle.  So I guess that means I need to step it up and start doing things that are on the road to this healthy lifestyle.

Writing this out has been helpful - I have now put the thoughts in my head into an actual pattern that makes sense.  If you get nothing out of reading this that's ok with me because I got something out of writing it.

Here's what I got out it...
1. Start doing! - Instead of talking/writing about the things I need to do just do it...and then write about it.
2. It is what you make of it - My blog can be a journal of my life to a healthy lifestyle if I make it one.  By doing #1 I will be able to make this blog what I want it to be.

If you stuck around to read this whole thing, congratulations - you've reached the end!

Questions for you...

If you blog how did you decide what your purpose would be?

Ever struggle with blogging?  If so, how did you get out of that "funk"?

You can't sip whiskey gotta drank it!

When I was trying to come up with a title for this post my new favorite song popped into my head and I thought it was kind of fitting.  The title comes from Justin Moore's song Hank It off his album Justin Moore.

So it's been a while since my last post about the Good News & Bad News.  A lot has happened and I'll do my best to summarize all of it without boring anyone to death.

First of all, that good news that I mentioned in my last post that I kept a secret from y'all will be revealed this weekend.  Get excited because I know I am!

Three days after my last post I celebrated my 21st birthday.  My parents and I were on the road so when we had the opportunity to eat a Red Lobster we jumped on it.

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Wow I don't know how I ever let myself leave the house like that.  Yikes!  But anyways, I ordered my first legal alcoholic drink and was carded for the first time, enjoyed some awesome shrimp, and some awesome dessert.  Red Lobster apparently does nothing but sing when it's your birthday.  No free dessert or anything, boo!

I went out with only my mom and my aunt that night for drinks.  We ate dinner at Texas Roadhouse and bar hopped our way home.  No, I didn't enjoy 21 shots but I still had a good time.

Following the birthday weekend I only had a three-day work week as it was time to hit the road to Country Fest 2011.  I don't want to say too much about it now since I have a post in the works with pictures!  But you can read about who I got to see here.  I will share that I fell in love with Justin Moore after seeing him at Country Fest :)

I came back to work on Tuesday, nothing exciting happened that week.

This past weekend I did some fishing with my dad, some farm work, and a lot of reading!  Oh yea, I got a Kindle for my birthday and have been loving it.  I just wish they had more free books haha!

Now it's Thursday night and I've been hoping and thinking it's been Friday pretty much all week.  Like I mentioned earlier my secret can be revealed this weekend and so of course I am looking forward to the weekend more than usual.  Anyone want to take a guess at what my secret is?

In a nutshell these past couple of weeks have been full of fun and not so much healthy living.  That's all changing this month though.  I've once again recommitted to leading a healthier lifestyle and using www.sparkpeople.com to help me.

What's coming up:

Surprise Revealed

Country Fest 2011

I'm getting back into the blogging world so if I've been missing from your comments section be prepared for me to make a comeback!  And if you're a reader of my blog I hope you come back too!