So after taking about a six month hiatus from blogging, I have decided to pick my blog back up and get writing. Thinking about why I stopped blogging made me realize why I need to reignite the process. Life seems to throw a lot of extra curves particularly after you think you are just where you need to be or think you should be. And you can truthfully get very caught up in the backdraft of that curve. Perhaps you even get caught in the curve itself. When this happens, you can lose yourself.
Reach for you this 2012!
I know from experience that I stopped doing for me in between doing for others. I just said yes and yes and yes and never once said yes to me. So I gave up things that I needed to do for me- including blogging. @Suzieprof suffered a bit too- my Twitter account seemed to have less tweets being pushed out despite me having a lot to say. I stopped reading my favorite genre of books- those reinvent yourself, innovations for today’s self-starter books. Then I came across this: Stephen Covey’s The 3rd Alternative- after reviewing this USA Today article: http://www.usaweekend.com/article/20111111/HOME02/311110005/Family-feud-How-resolve-conflict-during-holidays?odyssey=nav|head I sort of reacted a little like Lucy VanPelt from Charles Schultz’s world of the Peanuts, “That’s it!” This is the just the thing I need to begin my 2012- my New Beginning. And the bam- I opened my blog and got blogging. I would be lying however if I did not acknowledge a short conversation I had earlier today with a wise friend who said, “Suzanne, you need to learn how to be by yourself again.” I used to spend time with me when I was in graduate school in Boston. I often reflect on those alone times as being very therapeutic. Walking from Kenmore Square to the North End was a regular routine for me and it was something I planned to do with just me. So why is it so hard to find that young graduate student from 1992 in 2012? Life’s curves, although can be positive new transitions, can distract you from what is important.
To let myself off the hook a bit, I did start a new full time job two years ago after only teaching a few classes and raising my kids for 12 years, graduated my son from middle school to high school, buried my dad and along the way got lost in the tailspin of the curve. Any pitcher, including AJ Burnett who has not been the starter of the future for the New York Yankees, would love to take a tailspinning curve and make it a winning pitch. Hitters, much like us, are often tricked by the curve. So, I know I am not alone. But this New Year, I want to ride the curve back to me- reinvent me, and reach for me in 2012. I also look forward to blogging, tweeting and reading…so stay tuned!
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