I have had a blog for a while now. It gives me an interesting snapshot into my life. I have noticed two very big patterns. First, I have goals that never get realized and second, I always come back to this blog in November.

On the first point: goals. Goals are interesting. Just having a goal doesn’t make anything happen. You can own a car, but you won’t go on a single road trip if you don’t make some plans, get in that car and turn it on. My blog has been like my car sitting in my garage. It’s there but it’s not going anywhere. Without me putting some planning and effort into this, it will be more of a dream than a goal and nothing will ever come of it.

On the second point: November. I know this is when fall starts to show its face in Texas. Sometimes we get lucky and get touches of fall in October but November is when it really settles into fall here, and I get re-energized again for my quilting and my knitting. Part of that rejuvenation is my desire to write and communicate about what I’m working on as well. So every year around this time, I start to ramp up again both in my studio and at my keyboard.

I have decided that this year is going to be different. I have to be the reason that it is different. I have to take my dream of an active, regular blog, and turn it into a goal that has a plan. I have been learning a lot about blogs the last year – especially how I can write content ahead of time and schedule it to be posted. This should make my blog much more flexible in terms of fitting into my schedule, but without a plan, this hasn’t happened. So I’m going to try something new this November. I have laid out a plan for blog posts for the next two months. One post a week – I don’t want to get so overzealous here that I push myself to the point where it’s not sustainable. I have come up with a post topic for each week. There’s 9 of them! (December has 5 Monday’s so there’s a “bonus” post in December). If this goes well then I will continue the plan and continue to post and see if this coming year will be any different.

The one thing I do know, is that if I don’t make a plan and take action, I will arrive at November 2019 writing yet another “I really want to write this blog” post and that’s not in my plan.