Being honest with myself

It can be hard at times to be honest with yourself. You want to believe your writing, your blog, your social media, etc. are the best in the world, but sometimes you have to be honest with yourself and realize, it may not be and that is alright.

I started a travel blog in late 2019 and into 2020, which was probably the worst time to start any kind of travel blog as the world shut down. I was eager to share everything I had learned after a trip to Japan at the end of 2019, but that just wasn’t in the cards. I still pushed forward, posted a ton of content, really had no idea what I was doing, and it failed. The blog got some views, but in my world it was a failure, it was just a bad time to start a blog like that. It never became what I wanted: an influential travel blog with tons of views and eventually some kind of future for it.

I had started the blog in a bad attempt to become a travel blogger, someone that could get enough attention, build a blog, and start to travel more of the world and get the readership to take over as a new source of income. I know, it’s a completely wild and stupid idea, but it was in my head at the time and still floats around from time to time. I mean, unless you have deep pockets to begin, somehow have figured out the wanderlust life, or are just the luckiest person on earth, the idea of become a travel blogger is not an easy goal to reach. Especially a life style of living off of a blog, it just seems like a dream at best in my book. That is why I called it a failure, I put the blog down and stopped posting or even trying to write content for it.

It is not easy to say you failed, but sometimes it has to be done and can be an eye opener. This is what I have done, my old travel blog was a failure, that’s it. It was a bad idea at a bad time and now I am trying to figure it out and get a new start with this new blog, using it as a new platform to get it started.

I am not sure what kind of travel blog this is going to be, but that is part of the fun and the energy I need to get back into it and attempt to make a real blog. I know I will not be some famous travel blogger/influencer that is able to travel the world and with an apparent endless supply of money (doesn’t it seem like they all do that?).

The blog just needs to come together at my own pace and I need to make it that, being honest with myself the entire time.