Nikki's New Things

I've been hemming and hawing on this one for a while. A little over a year ago, when I started this blog, I really needed some sort of drive to get me out of the house and exploring an area that I'd lived in for 6 years and really didn't know that well. By creating a concrete, measurable goal, I had instantly motivated myself to explore more.

It was pretty remarkable how quickly my perspective changed. Whenever I made plans I thought about what I hadn't done or seen before. I planned trips to explore new places or find new things in the old. I tried new restaurants. I made new friends. I changed my perspective. I think about the way I approach things now - the way I get excited about doing something new or different - and I love it. I couldn't imagine my life being any other way right now.

In the past year, I've written about 75 posts. Even if you take out the ones where I talk about my life or a holiday, it's still well above 52 - the number of weeks in a year - and the blog is only in April right now. It's become really clear to me that some weeks I do a whole lot of new things and other weeks I'm struggling on Sunday to think of a new thing to squeeze in. I love writing but I want to write about the interesting things I do, not just write a review on a place I didn't care for in order to meet a self imposed quota.

So - the bottom line is, I'm not getting rid of the blog, but I am getting rid of the "one thing a week" rule. I've also decided to enforce this on all posts going forward. It may seem like the easy way out but I think it will make the blog more exciting. I'm only going to write about the things that were really exciting - that made me think, got my heart racing, or just left me so satisfied that the memory has remained crystal clear months after the fact - which means the posts on here will be more interesting as well.