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There are fail-days. I go through them. I got extremely tired and had no desire to touch my blog this past weekend.
I had had a draft post I was to edit and put up on Saturday. It had also been a couple of busy days leading up to that moment, so I didn’t get to check up on the post.
Saturday morning; I got a devastating email from Mailchimp – my newsletter service provider. Very very devastating news. My account was suspended as soon I clicked “send newsletter”. My very first newsletter!
An account I constantly created for over a month – through the poor network, lack of professional skill, mega data expenditure, and so much time! My entire account was suspended just like that, and without using it once after set-up.
Boy, was I frustrated. I tried pushing that aside. I thought ‘let me atleast edit the blog post for today’. It was then that I found out the post was still too raw and I was in no mood to create a masterpiece. I just shut it all down.
I thought to myself that I may as well space out this blogging thing for a while.
But, I’ve since had time to get my energy back particularly since I got a personal message from a blog reader today thanking me for my consistency and how my last post blessed his life. Ah well. I’m back to this place. We will work the newsletter again, amen?
Like a person who had an accident, I’m here planning to take baby steps again after my blogging crises. Baby blogging steps today means simply writing as I want to – reminding myself that I do not need to be pressured on any front. I am growing and being. I am simply content being here this Sunday evening, 18:29pm in front of my laptop while a message plays aloud on my phone and birds tweet outside my window.
Today, I just want to put up some pictures on my blog and have fun while doing it. Its delightful being a baby blogger, yeah?
While I’m baby-blogging, I want to encourage you to “baby-do” whatever big thing is crashing right in front of you. Just take the baby steps at it, do the basics. Sometimes its enough.
Not everyday a masterpiece, sometimes just paint, write, be.
A/N: So this post is coming up many months after the crisis. Said crisis occurred at the end of January this year. I think I’m sharing this today because you need to baby-do whatever big thing is crashing right in front of you. But do not stop.
Being an adult requires doing lots of things, and sometimes doing them alone. It can be wearying, and while its not wearying to me right now, I want to tell whoever its wearying to right now, “take baby-steps”.
A baby doesn’t stop walking because he falls. Interestingly, the parents are amused with the baby’s bounce and fall, as its a harbinger of good news, our child is developing.
Sweet child, your father says your occasional fall shows you’re developing. Relax, and live in stride.
Your fellow baby sister,
Debby.
Great to read your post! Very good message there….. Not to give up at whatever. …..baby steps better than non! Inspirational!
God bless you Debby!
May your pen continue to write to bless humanity ?
Thank you very much mummy. ??
Thanks Debby. This is timely. It’s exactly what I’m trying to do now.
I love you and I know you’ll always do the right thing. Grateful that we have company in taking these steps.
This is so timely for me.Every word seems to strike a chord in my heart. This post is a great blessing and encouragement to me.
Thanks a lot Deb❤
That’s always my greatest pleasure. Thank you for reading too.
This is so timely for me and I every seems to strike a chord in my heart.This post is a great blessing and encouragement to me.
Thanks a lot Deb❤
This is so timely
Every word seems to strike a chord in my heart.
This post is a great encouragement to me right now
Thanks a lot Deb❤
Hello Debby!
Yea I agree that being an adult can be so exhausting and personally I try to stay sane in the midst of it all.
I really hope the crisis didn’t take so much from you and I pray God keeps strengthening you through it all.
About taking baby steps, you’re so on point! Like right now, I feel like a newbie all over again with my new blog but deep within I’m learning that success is slow and steady. The process is always beautiful as the end result. I know how I started. Trust me if you’d seen my writings in 2013, you’d appreciate the difference. And the plan is to keep getting better and better.
Like you said, not everyday is a masterpiece. Sometimes we just need to be present and do. And that suffices.
Amazing post Debby! Now I have a blogging buddy.
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Hi Itunu.
Thank you. It was all well and good, the crisis didn’t take much from me. I was in fact, at the time of writing already very good and referring to an incidence that took place months before, in order to encourage others.
The plan is to keep getting better ?.
P.S: I’m too honoured to reply without stuttering to the “blogger buddy” part. Haha