blink,blink,blink…..the cursor flashes in the stark add new post box. Ceiling cat knows how many times I have sat here staring at it lately (or fallen a sleep face first into my laptop..which is exactly what happened last night).
I’ve made plenty of posts in my head, but I just can’t seem to get them out…I just don’t seem to have the words. Even posting this has taken 2 days.
The last 12mths interneting (it is too a word!) has been hard. Starting full-time work..juggling that and 3 kids is tough. And spending all day at work online, and working on sites and content…it can be the last thing you want to do when you get home. So other than a bit of surfing, shopping and tweeting, I’ve neglected [tooltip text="All for Women"]every[/tooltip] [tooltip text="Blog Chicks"]thing[/tooltip].
I lost my rhythm, my nerve, my confidence. Always second guessing, and talking myself out of posting this or that. And I just feel down right lazy.
It’s not that I don’t want to..I just don’t know how to get my voice and my motivation back…is it even possible?
Everyone makes it looks so easy, I remember when it was that easy. So why was has it become so painfully hard?
I set my desk buddy Cameron up blogging a few months ago, he is going great guns. I want to punch him, more than usual, when I see him bash out a post in 10mins..sometimes even 2.
I feel a bit of a fraud calling myself a blogger these days.
How do you know when it’s time to give up?
I love this poster, but I can’t work out which side I am on.
Reading back over this post, sounds a lot like excuses thought…doesn’t it.
Leigh i am really hoping ‘you will find a way’ I have always enjoyed everything that you write, You are very honest,clever, funny & extremely witty, your sense of humour is just the best (true)
As for confidence,…… Never doubt yourself Leigh, you are one real ‘Super Trooper’
I have no idea how you manage to do everything that you do when, there is, only 24 hours in a day & i for one really admire you for all that you achieve
Wishing you many more years interneting
xo
Naww Di…you are such a liar
But a good one 
I stopped for the couple of years when we first moved here, before we had a proper internet connection, and I felt sad for that.
Yeah..not sure what would be worse. Sad to walk away from it all, or the guilt and stress I feel now.
Take a sabbatical, or just rest your weary digits and take Internet life a little easy…hopefully we will soon see a new revitalised Leigh, ready to amuse and thrill us again.
That being said, you and your family come first, never feel guilty for getting your priorities right.
Look after yourself.
I reckon if you’ve lost your voice, your voice needs a nice long rest until it naturally comes back of its own accord. No guilt, no expectation, no pressure.
My boss has got a favourite expression “you can only do what you can do”. When life gets busy, stressful or sometimes just plain irritating, something has got to give. Family and personal sanity has to come first – always. The interwebs will still be there tomorrow.
I like that saying
I hear ya! No amazing suggestions unfortunately. Lack of time is a HUGE factor for me too. I also think my presence on other social networks is a HUGE time wasting thing too – time that I think I used to devote some of to blogging. I still keep up my blog though – not ready to give up just yet.
Surely there is a magic switch for us oldies to get our groove back..I’ll let you know when I find it.
I ask myself the same thing, especially lately. Hugs. Hoping you get your groove back.
Definitely, definitely, *definitely* take a break from it. You’re better off having the chance of wanting to come back to it one day than forever hating it because you felt forced.
On the proviso that you keep in touch…
I’ve been struggling with this a lot over the past six months or so… I think the biggest part of getting my groove back has been getting myswelf back into the routine of it.
hugs. Hope you find your groove again soon hun