In the past 4 years or so, my life has been a series of making plans, beginning them and then changing directions in the middle of implementing the plan. I have always thought that change is good, it moves us forward and helps us grow.
Luckily I have also been learning to be gentle with myself when I change my mind and to listen to my intuition, instinct, or whatever you want to call it, to guide me wherever it is I am headed. If something doesn't feel comfortable or like a good fit, I am not afraid to brainstorm to find something else that does feel right.
Take blogging for example. I've started a number of blogs in the past 5 to 6 years and always abandon them when I move on to something else. Poor abandoned blogs. I left this blog to become Barefoot Jewel when I was a Barefoot Books ambassador. I even purchased a domain name for five years, that is how sure I was that I'd found the right thing for me! It seemed as though selling books would be my thing. Why not? I LOVE reading books and I enjoy being around children. Perfect, right? Sadly, no. Although I love books, I am a thrift store book, vintage book, library book kind of person, so trying to sell new books at prices I would never pay myself just wasn't working out for me. I continued to use my Barefoot Jewel blog since it was paid for
So finally the Barefoot Jewel domain has expired, so I am back to using this blog. I took off all of the links I don’t use and am sort of revamping the entire thing. The missing years from the last post in 2011 to this one will be copy and pasted into a future post in case anybody wants to see what went on in my life between then and now.
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