First Year of Blogging
It’s our Birthday!!
Kinda of.
June is the month we decided to push the button to start a blog, but even before June we took weeks to decide what our name was going to be. It took countless e-mails, lists, text messages, and arguments before we settled on The Wheels of Grace.
After knowing that The Wheels of Grace was our name we dove into learning how to build a blog. It took 4 months of learning and writing before we officially released it to the world.
I did what I do in any life situation ever, I bought a book. I read that book and read articles, watched videos, and I put all of my little soul into making a website.
I like to think of this as our pre-birthday. The time when we were conceived. The gestation period for our blog was 4 months and when September came we were born.
I can safely say that it is the most enjoyable thing that I have learned and the thing I have been most passionately driven to do.
I believe in the three of us more than I have believed in anything else in the world.
In September we will celebrate our birth and today we will celebrate our conception.
Here are the things I have learned.
1. Practice
1 year ago I knew nothing about blogging and only barely realized I wanted to be a writer. I now have a year of practice and I am better for it.
Any goal of yours can be completed with hard work.
2. I cannot learn it all immediately.
I immersed myself into learning and I learned a lot, but at times I tried to learn too, much too quickly. I read advice from other bloggers who were in a different blogging place than I was. It took this entire year to figure out what speed I could handle learning at. The beautiful part is that I still have so much to learn and learning is my favorite activity!
We are meant to learn every day for the rest of our lives, the learning process is never over. That fact should make us joyful.
3. I found who I am.
I started this project with the intent to help Norah and Sergio pursue their dreams but somewhere along the way I found out a few things about myself. I found that I love to write, which is something I used to hate doing. I found my long lost passion for photography, which I am still very much learning and would not call myself good at all. And I found a passion for wanting to design our website to be beautiful. I have designed our website several times and it is still not how I want it to look, but I have learned so much along the way.
Finding your own dreams often comes from helping others pursue their own.
4. The internet can teach you anything.
Most of my learning has come from Pinterest and Google Searching. If there is something I want to learn how to do there is someone in the world who knows how.
Community is the best way to learn.
5. Jut do it!
I still don’t think this blog is good enough for people to see, but how was I ever going to learn if I didn’t dive in a try.
There is never room to grow unless you try.
