Wow, it has been far too long since I last posted here. June 15 was the last post and before that May 22. First, I just want to say that I haven’t given up on the blog or advocating for those living with diabetes. I am still here and if you follow me on Twitter, I’m still pretty active over there, just haven’t been posting much on the blog.
So, what is the reason?
There are three primary reasons. First, my daughter. She is now almost 5 months old and having our first child has totally changed our lives and we are still adjusting every day. Secondly, my business has been expanding and growing (which is a good thing now that my wife is staying at home with our daughter), but my time has been consumed doing work for my clients and not as much time is left over for me to do what I used to do over here on the blog.
Lastly, and I mentioned this before, I felt like I wasn’t getting as much out of the blog as I once did, so I didn’t feel the need to spend as much time on it. What do I mean by not getting as much out of the blog? I do not mean monetary or trips or product, etc. I mean that I was receiving less emails, less comments, less feedback and I began to think that I wasn’t helping people like I once was.
And then bam, out of nowhere I have 4-5 emails from people asking me about situations that I blogged about years ago and wanted my feedback. I haven’t even posted in months but I started to get emails again. And that is exactly why I do this blog. I write about my experiences because as I learned when I once thought I was the only person living with these problems and questions, that there are others just like me, and I want to share my experiences in hopes that it helps just one person.
Then I decided to just look at my analytics data and saw that I still have a fair amount of people coming to this blog on a daily basis without even posting and I just knew that I needed to get back to it. Just like I make commitments to my family and my clients, I am making a commitment to myself that I need to write more and by writing more hopefully I can help just one more additional person.
So, here I am calling myself out. I will update this blog once a day for the rest of August.