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I started falling behind on my own timeline. I tend to do this and it tends to prevent me from making goals ever because I usually fall behind on them. Sometimes I hope to live to 150 so that I can do all the things I want.
I decided to start my first website about baby sleep, directed at parents trying to help their babies to get to sleep. I felt this was a natural fit because I had recently become very good at getting my little, then, 8-month old to take naps and go to bed and sleep through out the night. Also, I had purchased a lot of products to help us go to sleep, so I was sure that I could put that knowledge to good use.
I finished Lesson 1 feeling optimistic and very hopeful, even though it had taken me longer to get through the course than I felt like it should have.
Then Wonder Week Leap 7, the ninth-month hit. I was not able to work on my blog at all because my sweet son required more attention than he has in his entire life. It hit me hard, because I did not see it coming. I was completely unaware that this was about to happen. I was exhausted at the end of the day.
For a while I felt like I wasn't able to get anything done. I couldn't work on my website, I couldn't get further in the lessons. I could barely get my baby to take a nap. Now, I know that failure is just a negative perception of what could be a lesson, but in the middle of it, I really felt like I was failing.
I felt like I had chosen the wrong topic to create my site about. How could I speak to a niche when I could barely help myself? Through all of this, I still checked into WA daily to keep up with gratitude for followers and to see what was going on with things like SSL and Kyle's first live chat.
Now that we are almost through this rough phase, and my baby is starting to take better naps again, I am looking forward to getting back to my website and to Lesson 2. I return with even more knowledge about baby sleep and more experience, and of course, a little more patience. ;)
I have also just laid the groundwork for three other sites for topics that are personal-interest based (crafting, grammar, and energy-saving) so I don't feel like my whole life is about baby sleep, lol.
Did you ever have a time when you felt like you weren't going to get through? Do you feel that way right now about something?
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I think this happens to everyone at some time or another. Our websites have to take second place over our family and that's just how it goes. The important thing is to learn and grow from our experience. I am just going through a patch where I feel like I haven't posted enough content on my website. I have other things going on right now and I have been spending time sorting out other areas of my site. We are only human and there is only so much that one person can get through in a day. I could do with an extension on the day sometimes though, oh and a never ending supply of energy and enthusiasm too!
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hardships are an important part of our journey. keep on going !
They certainly are!