Yesterday marked
the start of Lent. I always look forward
to lent, as it’s a time for me to reflect and make changes to better your
relationship with God and yourself.
Every year I usually give up something and also add something for the 40
days. This year, instead of the usual
food choices I 'give up", I chose to do something that was a bit more challenging, a sort of cleanse, if you will. I am giving
up Social Media – yes, all of it. No Facebook,
twitter, bloglovin, instagram, pinterest, or tumblr for this girl until Easter. I have realized over the past few months that
I am seriously addicted to these networks and find myself refreshing obsessively to
see what new pictures or posts are there.
Being able
to step back and remove those for a time, I hope, will allow me to focus on
more important and time worthy things like relationships or just having time to myself to read.
And also how to balance this with social media outlets once I ease them
back into my routine. Being a blogger,
these platforms are a huge part to getting my content and daily postings out
there, so this will be really challenging as far as this blog goes.
I don’t
look at SBV as ‘social media’ – just a place for me to journal; so I feel I
can still post and blabber on about fashion during the next several weeks. The only drawback is not being able to
promote or get them out into the fashion world via my usual outlets and not
being able to read anyone else’s posts and comment (which is the first thing I
do each morning)
When I first
started this blog, there was only twitter and Facebook to get content out there,
and I didn’t really post things on either of them. I just blogged about what I wanted to and
that was that. So I am sort of taking a
step back and just focusing on writing. Sometimes,
for me, having too many channels can be overwhelming and defeat the purpose of
what I am trying to do. I focus on just
getting something out there, rather than putting out good content. I am going with the less is more outlook to
see if that really is true or can work for me.
Honing in on one platform and writing good content is my goal. Getting back to my roots will hopefully make
me a better writer and give me the ability to then use other social media
outlets as needed, to get my posts out there.
I know Easter
morning I will probably wake up extra early to catch up (or try to) on all the
things I missed. But for the next 40
days, I’m going to keep things simple and focus on relationships, writing more
often and thoughtfully, and stop trying to keep up with the Joneses.
Am I completely crazy? Can I really stay off these for 40 days? Only way to know is to follow along here over the next several weeks!
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