Using Blogging To Find Inspiration

I've been on and off with blogging for two years now, and I find it difficult to find the inspiration and the motivation to continue with it. I’ve completely run out of ideas for posts and I wonder was this just a temporary hobby for me, whilst I figured out what direction to take with my life. When I first started blogging it was something that I’d wanted to do for months, but I was made to feel like my one and only interest, hobby and career choice would be acting, when it was something I was rapidly falling out of love with and for a while I was fighting it, desperately wanting something different in my life. The day I sat down and created my blog and wrote my very first post was the day after I quit college. I finally felt free to pursue anything I desired. I quickly took up as many things as I could, and very soon I began to fall back in love with acting. It was as if my interest in beauty and fashion and how much my life revolved around it had truly inspired me and encouraged me not to give up my passion.

I planned my posts out weeks in advance and I would take as many photos as I could and they would inspire me to write more. I had so much fun with researching new products to mention on my blog. Working in retail really threw me into a life with seasonal trends and an ever-changing personal style. I really enjoyed and revelled in the new person I was becoming, and I had an amazing drive I can only dream of now. That person is someone I miss, and I wish I could go back to that, but I’ve made a commitment to my education and in order to live my life as it is now, I have to work so much there doesn’t seem much time for anything else. But my passion is leaving me again, and I don’t care for drama or acting or anything to do with it. I feel like I’ve thrown myself back into a world full of marking criteria’s and only doing the work to get good grades. I don’t love this anymore, and I don’t want to do it. So I’m starting to think; blogging inspired my life before, so can it do it again?

I’m going to try my absolute hardest to post, and rather than keep myself on a strict schedule, I’ll just write when I’m inspired to and when I want to talk about something. Last Christmas I tried my hand at more lifestyle blogging, and it was something I really enjoyed, so that will probably be 80% of my posts from now on – even though I work two jobs, I don’t have enough money to be buying new anything, and most of what I own now is what I came to university with. I think the main objective with me blogging is to write my feelings and my thoughts on my life and my interests, and hopefully find the inspiration to reclaim my passion, and to be happy with the person I am becoming. 

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I'VE BEEN GONE FOR SO LONG!

HONESTY HOUR: I took a break from blogging at the end of April, deciding that I just wasn't enjoying it anymore. I thought that a break would give me time to find some inspiration and motivation in order to blog, but all I've done is procrastinate and have been making so many excuses as to why I let myself become so disinterested in something that used to be my favourite hobby. In my defence, my laptop broke sometime in April; it just decided it would turn off at random times and be less than helpful, but I had so many opportunities to get a new one or look at getting it fixed; I didn't even ask about it. Didn't buy my camera either, and used my laptop breaking as another excuse as to why I hadn't bought something I could so easily afford at the time. 

At the minute I am typing up this post on a brand new laptop(!) and looking forward to the months ahead, prioritising my money and prepping myself for university, and most of all not putting any pressure on myself. I'll get back into blogging the same way I'll get back into playing the guitar; slowly. I don't want to force myself to be interested in something that I'm just not feeling because all it does is makes me feel unmotivated and bored.

If anyone feels the same as I do, just remember that blogging is something that you do to enjoy, and it doesn't have to be all or nothing. It's a hobby. Just do you. 

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UPDATE Featuring Blurry Pictures

HELLO THERE, I know it's been a while since I posted, and my last posts have just been wishlists, but I had some issues with February; I think it was worse than January if I'm honest. I had a HUGE spending ban because there was a few birthdays, some late Christmas parties, and a few celebrations to mark the end of the January Blues - which then turned into February Blues. 

I didn't manage to get my camera due to money issues that I will still have in March, as I'm saving money for my university auditions, (which I am so excited for)! However I do plan to have it in April, but because I haven't had it I have just been feeling really down about blogging because I was saving posts to shoot with my camera, and the weather has been awful so taking blog photos was just not happening at all. I'm really determined to get back into it however, as I've found the perfect location to shoot my beauty posts and I have acquired a few outfits I'd like to share via my posts. Let me just pray that I have enough money for my camera soon! 

A couple updates since I've been away include getting my nose pierced! It was a late Christmas present from my best friend Jordan and I am so excited for it to heal. I really wanted a small ring, but the man refused to pierce it with anything but a stud, so now I have this weird round ball on my nose, with one in my nose on the other side of the bar... but I know once I have either a ring or a small flat stud I will fall in love it so much.

I had been saving my Boots Advantage card points for so long so I finally purchased a Smashbox primer that I have been lusting over for an entire year, as well as putting my Christmas gift card to good use by purchasing my amazing Chanel mascara - expect reviews on these soon! 

I've already scheduled a bunch of beauty posts for you, and I look forward to shooting some more outfits soon, thanks for bearing with my absence, I will post again soon! If you want to keep updated I am always on Instagram and Twitter, my username is ohmyjosey.

See you all soon!

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