Charting a Course

So it has been awhile, I inadvertently took a break from blogging. Life has been at work throwing me lots of punches, and I have spent a lot of time ducking!  A monster winter snow storm here, our region thrown into weather chaos, marathon hours at work, a sick child, Christmas preparations gone wild, and there are not many hours left in a day. Each night, I go to sleep thinking of what I would be writing if I was sitting at my computer, but I quickly drift off into sleep before I ever get started.

I have spent a lot of time reflecting, trying to understand what it is that motivated me to start writing in the first place. Why am I writing this blog, and how can my contributions be meaningful to any potential readers? I have spent a lot of time over the past weeks reading some high impact blogs, and taking lessons from these writers (including my blogging buddy John Paul). It struck me that I need to focus my writing a bit more. There are an abundance of blogs on personal finance out there, and I need to make my voice unique. My background is not in personal finance, it is simply a field I have gravitated toward as I have become a working professional.  My university degrees are in the life sciences, and in psychology, so I am not going to fool anyone with my expertise on retirement planning or following the stock markets. So I have been thinking that I will continue documenting my personal finance journey (the reason I started to begin with) and also talk about some of the psychological aspects of spending, saving, shopping and acquiring debt. We will see how this process goes. The content may still evolve as we go along, and that's ok too. It's just good to be out there, reading, writing, editing, creating, learning, socializing and networking. A welcome diversion from my professional working life!