Category Archives: Fear

Apr3

It’s Hard to be Authentic

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I find that promoting my businesses and my blog become overwhelming. That’s one of the many reasons my blog has suffered.

One of the top recommendations by the business experts is ‘to be authentic’.

Being authentic takes a lot of work. Responding to people so they know I care even when they don’t spend a dime at my businesses is frustrating.

That is time I could be spending with my kids. Who are the reason I stay home. The reason I so desperately try to run home-based web businesses and freelance.

Also, the examples given of being authentic are usually a crock of crap. I can tell the person is working at being authentic. That’s not authentic.

What’s authentic is I am a busy mom trying to help support my family. I want you to buy my products and use my services because it helps me provide for my children. I DO care about people and my customers.

However, spending 15 hours a day promoting my business and engaging with possible customers doesn’t seem to be authentically getting me towards that goal of being with my kids.

So other bloggers in the blogosphere, I need advice, what do you do that get you readers and real blogger relationships?

Mar24

Take that unreasonable fear!

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Never before would I have slept with the windows open.

I has been a constant fear in my life that someone would creep in through an open window and hurt me. I have suffered through high electricity bills from constant air conditioning or undressed down to my undies while I sweat to death when I have not had the money for air.

Suddenly, this year, that has changed. That fear, in light of all my family has been through in the past year, has been vanquished. I have had my windows open since we got home from Minnesota last week. I haven’t closed them at night.

During the day I have been leaving my back door open so the dogs can run in and out. Even with our privacy fence and locked gate, that has never been an option.

I am not sure what has changed, but I am glad it has! Take that!