Seasons Change: Change With Them

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I was walking down one of my favorite walking paths this week and I couldn’t help but notice that yes indeed fall has arrived to Indiana.

I love fall in Indiana as it is full of warm days and beautiful colors. What I don’t like so much is the season afterwards. I am not a fan of winter, yet I can’t stop it coming. The changing of the seasons will happen whether I want them to or not.

The change however will go more smoothly if I embrace it. I can embrace it better when I can dwell on the positive instead of the negative.

And that is how we need to approach life too. We need to be always willing to adapt and to change to whatever season of life we find ourselves in.

Right now I am needing to adapt. I have been struggling more than normal  lately to balance blogging with homeschooling, keeping up my home, my marriage, my friendships, and my health.

I need to adapt but I have been wrestling as to what to let go of.  My problem is I am a very routine person, and once I get stuck in a routine I don’t like changing it.

I had a blog review a few months back , and they showed me my traffic from when I began blogging  to now and from it showed me what posts  get viewed again and again and they are all my step by step detailed posts. These are the posts, you my readers love and I want to provide them for you. I want to help you in the areas you need most, and if detail helps you, I want to provide detail.

Problem: Detailed posts take time. My most detailed posts take 4 to 5 hours to create. To write 5 detailed posts a week I would need 25 hours just for researching, writing, editing, and doing the photos. Blogging, however, is so much more than just creating, there is social media, emails, post promotion, networking, and then there is this whole trying to make a bit of money back for all the hours you put into it.

Truth: I don’t have 25 hours to spend just on writing.  Without sufficient time what ends up happening is I rush posts, and they are not as detailed as I want them to be, and that doesn’t serve my audience as well as they could. I can’t keep posting 5 new posts a week.

I dislike not serving my audience as well as I could. You are important to me. I want to do the best I can to help you reach your goals of finding time and money to pursue your passions, whatever those passions might be.

Solution: Stop posting as often.  After waring with my routine self for months I have finally decided to stop posting as often as well as changing up what I post when. I am going to stop the posts that have been getting the least amount of traffic, which tells me, you my readers, don’t really dig them as much as others.

Of course I give myself permission to go off topic now and again 🙂 Writing can get boring without shaking it up now and again.

I am also going to work at getting up earlier to work more  hours before the rest of the family awakes. I of course am inching back into this as I am still struggling with low iron levels causing me to need more sleep, but those levels are slowly rising and I plan to get to bed earlier so I can still sleep as many hours as my body needs.

My hope is that this new writing schedule and getting up  earlier will allow me to give you more of  the  in depth posts you love week after week.

I hope sharing these changes with you will inspire you to take steps to manage your time more effectively as well. If you are feeling out of control, like every area of your life is never done as well as your like, I encourage you to take some time this week to really think about what things you can let go of to make more time for those areas that are priorities to you. And if you are a routine lover like me, don’t be afraid to try a new routine, you can always return to the old one if the new one fails to work, but give it at least a 6 to 8 weeks first.

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