{"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 <\/p>\n 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 <\/p>\n The most important reason however, for me to keep at this is all the readers and friends<\/strong>\u00a0I’ve made. Could I have kept on at this without the support of the readers i.e. YOU! ? No, I’d have given up because it’s no fun talking to yourself or shouting into the wind \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n So as MWS turns 7, I take this opportunity to thank every single one of you reading this for spending those few precious minutes each day with me to read my ramblings, to contribute to the comments and ask questions and help answer others. I don’t think your boss appreciates it, but believe you me, you have my everlasting gratitude!<\/p>\n If I didn’t have your support, we wouldn’t be here celebrating 7 years on this home of mine on the internet. I’d like to think of blog years like dog’s years so yes, it does sort of feel like I’ve been doing this for 49 years! LOL \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n Thank you, you and of course, YOU <\/strong>for giving me the passion to keep going \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n xoxo<\/p>\n Paris B<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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. My Women Stuff turns 7 in 2 days and believe you me, that<\/p>\n\n