When I first started this blog I remember being so excited. I was ready to create, share and explore life with my readers but, somehow, over the last year or so it stopped being fun. All of a sudden the excitement was gone, and in it’s place was an obsessive need to keep up with other creators in the blog space as well as an immeasurable focus on analytics and imaginary rules and regulations.
I went from easily drafting and executing ideas to playing the numbers and algorithm game.
The enjoyment I’d once had was gone, but somehow creating was still the only thing I truly wanted to do.
Lecrae once said ”don’t chase the money, chase the vision…” and honestly that statement has never made more sense to me than it does right now. I started my platform intent on chasing the vision I felt God had given me, and overtime instead began chasing what the world told me I needed to do in order to “make it”. After taking time away to reflect and refocus I’ve come to the conclusion that I never want to get to a point again in my life where I am so overwhelmed with what the world says I need to do to gain success that I forget the vision given to me, or that my process stops being enjoyable.
The vision God has given me take precedence over any and everything else.
Chasing vision breeds peace that chasing worldly things never will.
