Ultimate Blog Challenge Day One

It’s 11pm. A bit late for writing a blog post but I have just signed up to the Ultimate Blog Challenge again and would really like to get each of my posts this month done on the appropriate day, just like I did in July.

So why am I doing this? First of all, I do like a challenge and this year, the year that I have my 50th birthday, I am saying “yes” as often as I can. I feel that I am in a really interesting growth stage, a bit like a second teenage, and that if I stretch myself a bit all sorts of extraordinary things could happen. It’s quite certain that if I don’t stretch myself, if I say “maybe next time”, or “I can’t do it because…” then not very much will happen at all!

Secondly, doing the challenge in July really helped me develop my voice and clarify what I wanted to write about. I didn’t know this would happen, but I ended up writing a lot of personal development, spiritual and inspirational posts and enjoyed doing them. What’s more, I received a lot of positive feedback which was very inspiring and satisfying.

Finally, I need to make my intentions for the future more public. I have a part time “day job” but my dream is to make a good living through my writing. I want to keep pitching articles so that I start to get some of them published, and I am working on a book with another in the wings. My writing is what I think about when I am driving, when I’m in the bath, while I’m cooking. Come to think of it, I dreamed about living this way when I was a child, and then dismissed such ideas as silly and got myself a series of “proper” jobs which I didn’t enjoy.

So here I am. I’m not selling anything, just looking to increase my audience, for feedback and, once in a while, to make a difference. The UBC will give me more opportunities to do that. Roll on tomorrow…and the next day…and the next day…