6 Years Old Today

Well, WordPress reminds me that http://www.thoughtsnlifeblog.com is 6 years old today! I even forgot it was the blog’s birthday.

The first two months of blogging – I think I only wrote about five posts. I started on a free account. I loved blogging though I started slow. When I got into it in June, I was addicted. At that time I was at home, taking care of mum and then I landed a part time job at the place I had worked before – it was perfect!

Here are my first three post ever!

I cringe!

My very first post was A Quote of course. Read here

The second post was – read here

The third post was – read here

Reminiscing the Journery

I remember my blogging journey at the beginning, clueless and secretive, no one should find out, I didn’t even share my name, I had no clue about the reader. People slowly started to comment and I commented back. I followed many blogs some of who have left WordPress, some still here. Bloggers started to follow me – oh wow! I joined all the social media I could – clueless. But, I figured out how to create the automatic integrations from WordPress.com to Facebook and Twitter quite fast (looking back). I signed up to MailChimp but couldn’t figure it out and why! But, it was fun, and I was so naive and innocent. I didn’t even understand what a blog was. Graphics, and photos well – I just used three images all the time as my feature images – eek! I love quotes I would share loads.

As time went by, I would try out different schedules and share my schedules with all, then I would be so organised I have posts scheduled up to three weeks in advance. It was quotes, meditation, and something positive or about thoughts. Then, I started to think ooo maybe I could writer a book and a lot of bloggers encouraged me (I have been trying for the last 2 years or more).

Then I started to write poetry, started my graphics services, started a Youtube channel, had a go at podcasting and then there is my Newsletter I started in July 2021

Blogging on WordPress.com is a complete joy and I have made so many good friends.

However, many of you have noticed I am not blogging as much in the last year or a bit longer – which frankly is really annoying me! I don’t know why I am struggling to write, to engage. My mother’s health is not good, and covid made getting treatment etc impossible. There are some months where is just hospital appointments! I hope to get back to blogging and engaging more, but I think it will be a slower pace. I am making lots of efforts to get my book written, I have been busy with some clients for my graphics services, the newsletter, and I have brought some self-paced courses.

So that is whistle-stop tour of 6 years of blogging – I am sure I have missed a lot

Thank you to all my wonderful friends on WordPress.com so many of you are so dear to me and I classify you as my family. And I would like to say thanks to my New Followers.

Here are some of my publishing statistics

Blogging Year	Number of posts published
2016	206
2017	248
2018	231
2019	129
2020	456
2021	224
and in 2022 …… and counting	19

Thank you to all my wonderful friends on WordPress.com so many of you are so dear to me and I classify you as my family. And I would like to say thanks to my New Followers.