The Next Step
So it's been nearly a week since my last mini mental breakdown and just like after every breakdown I've learnt a lot.
Let's start with the daily sporadic posts. Yeah, that needs to stop. As much as I've personally enjoyed them, it doesn't make sense in the long run. I genuinely don't have time to spend writing daily blogs and the analytics are showing that you guys don't have time to keep up to date with them as well. But I also don't like the Monday and Friday at 8 schedule, so I'm going for a happy medium: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 5pm. This will allow me to live my life and produce quality content, i,e. spell check and go back to properly promoting on my socials where I have definitely been slacking.
Also I've learnt as I'm trying to focus on the positive in my life I need to do the same on my blog. Scrolling through all my previous posts there is a theme of "my life is crap", "uni is crap" and "I'm sad". While this was all true at the time and it helped to get it all out, there is more to my life than deeping my feelings. So from now on I'm going to focus on my life as a whole; the good, the bad and the ugly not just the bad and ugly. My authenticity will stay the same so still expect a few emotional posts because my journey to emotional maturity is far from over but honestly I'm bored of crying. I want to go back to enjoying my life; go to fashion shows, eat at my favourite restaurants etc and I want to share that on here.
So, this goes back to my fashion challenge that I set myself a couple of weeks ago. Apart from a couple hiccups I've been pretty good and it's been nice to see how people treat me differently. For example yesterday I wore a black turtle neck, black leggings, black knee high boots and a navy coat, a nice and simple outfit. My flat mate saw me at uni and she was shocked, said I looked lovely, fab, slay etc etc and it felt good to be complimented. The outfit really wasn't that hard to put together and I had all the clothes already there. To try and keep this looking presentable thing going, I'm going to try and include my love of fashion in my blog. Alongside this is I'm going to change my approach to my awkwardness in photos and practice. Just how after a week taking a bit of extra time to put a semi decent outfit became, easier so will posing, so you'll start seeing a couple of Instagram pics here and there and even a few in my posts. Not only of what I wear but also the food I eat since food is such a big part of my life. In short my dream of being a cool kid has been revived.
Finally, this blogging thing. In a post ages ago I mentioned that I didn't really know where I wanted this to go but now I've realised if I can make enough money to support myself through blogging then why shouldn't I try. A couple of weeks ago I said I'm taking this seriously but I wasn't serious about promotion or even the quality of this blog e.g. it's still hosted by blogspot. But I want to do this right, not in normal Jade fashion of doing it immediately and then changing as I go along. I'm going to take time to get exactly what I want, because I genially care so the quality needs to be there. But I also don't want to spend too much time and end up procrastinating, so I'm giving myself a deadline: January 1st.
New year, new blog.
Haven't really decided on anything apart from the date but expect the best. Also yesterday I went to my first blogging event and they spoke about time management, and how if you want blogging as a career you need to treat it like a business, that means putting in the time and investing money. To be honest I think this will be the easiest part, I tend to work well with set goals and if this goes to plan I'll be able to see where my investment is going. Hopefully this will even help me have better control over my spending habits.
So, Project Photogenic Jade starts on Monday…wish me luck
Also I've learnt as I'm trying to focus on the positive in my life I need to do the same on my blog. Scrolling through all my previous posts there is a theme of "my life is crap", "uni is crap" and "I'm sad". While this was all true at the time and it helped to get it all out, there is more to my life than deeping my feelings. So from now on I'm going to focus on my life as a whole; the good, the bad and the ugly not just the bad and ugly. My authenticity will stay the same so still expect a few emotional posts because my journey to emotional maturity is far from over but honestly I'm bored of crying. I want to go back to enjoying my life; go to fashion shows, eat at my favourite restaurants etc and I want to share that on here.
So, this goes back to my fashion challenge that I set myself a couple of weeks ago. Apart from a couple hiccups I've been pretty good and it's been nice to see how people treat me differently. For example yesterday I wore a black turtle neck, black leggings, black knee high boots and a navy coat, a nice and simple outfit. My flat mate saw me at uni and she was shocked, said I looked lovely, fab, slay etc etc and it felt good to be complimented. The outfit really wasn't that hard to put together and I had all the clothes already there. To try and keep this looking presentable thing going, I'm going to try and include my love of fashion in my blog. Alongside this is I'm going to change my approach to my awkwardness in photos and practice. Just how after a week taking a bit of extra time to put a semi decent outfit became, easier so will posing, so you'll start seeing a couple of Instagram pics here and there and even a few in my posts. Not only of what I wear but also the food I eat since food is such a big part of my life. In short my dream of being a cool kid has been revived.
Finally, this blogging thing. In a post ages ago I mentioned that I didn't really know where I wanted this to go but now I've realised if I can make enough money to support myself through blogging then why shouldn't I try. A couple of weeks ago I said I'm taking this seriously but I wasn't serious about promotion or even the quality of this blog e.g. it's still hosted by blogspot. But I want to do this right, not in normal Jade fashion of doing it immediately and then changing as I go along. I'm going to take time to get exactly what I want, because I genially care so the quality needs to be there. But I also don't want to spend too much time and end up procrastinating, so I'm giving myself a deadline: January 1st.
New year, new blog.
Haven't really decided on anything apart from the date but expect the best. Also yesterday I went to my first blogging event and they spoke about time management, and how if you want blogging as a career you need to treat it like a business, that means putting in the time and investing money. To be honest I think this will be the easiest part, I tend to work well with set goals and if this goes to plan I'll be able to see where my investment is going. Hopefully this will even help me have better control over my spending habits.
So, Project Photogenic Jade starts on Monday…wish me luck
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