{"id":14042,"date":"2014-03-07T08:30:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T00:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/?p=14042"},"modified":"2014-03-07T08:11:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T00:11:43","slug":"keeping-the-passion-for-blogging-alive-after-7-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/2014\/03\/keeping-the-passion-for-blogging-alive-after-7-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping the passion for blogging alive after 7 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There is a reason they call it the 7-year itch. It is just about long enough for a person to want to start exploring new things, but yet not long enough to decide if it’s time to up sticks and move on.<\/p>\n

My Women Stuff<\/strong> turns 7 in 2 days and believe you me, that itch set in well and good some time last year. So I have this draft post where I say good bye and thank you for all the fish, but I haven’t yet hit publish on it. The simple reason is that I couldn’t bring myself to. It was like cutting off an appendage and I realised I’d really miss my arm.<\/p>\n

So I talked to a couple of friends away from the blogging scene and they helped me put things in perspective. Incidentally, I received an email recently, asking me how I kept up my passion for blogging and it made me stop and think.<\/p>\n

And you know what? I don’t know how I’ve kept it up for 7 years! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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In an effort to understand how I’ve lasted this long and why I still keep at it, I thought about how I’ve kept at this for the past 7 years, and I believe it’s a combination of a few different factors, that I’m sure those of you who blog will recognise:-<\/p>\n