You know, that’s the way my life goes. The further I get away from the beginning of something, the more blurry it becomes. When I’m looking backward, anyway. So, I went back and found this post to refresh my memory.
Ah yes. I wanted to begin exercising. Actually, it was my daughter who wanted to exercise and I decided I would join her. So we did. Or, we tried. It began to prove itself a bigger challenge than I anticipated (doesn’t it always) and then as time rolled by, my 47 day challenge morphed into the 6-month challenge.
Then, of course, the 6-month challenge morphed into all kinds of things that tend to rise to the top when one decides to change something about one’s life. That’s actually the challenge part, I think.
However, in spite of the “challenging” part of the challenge, I’m glad I did this. Because though it puts pressure on me, I think it’s a good thing. Without pressure very little would get done.
Here’s what I’ve learned during this challenge:
- I’m really unorganized
- It’s easy to *say* something. It takes backbone to *do* it.
- When the going gets tough…….it’s hell.
- What are you trying to prove anyway?
- Are there really people out there in the blogosphere? And if there are….do they care if you fail or not?
- Will the real Magnolia please stand up?
- What the hell am I doing this for? (loosely related to: what are you trying to prove any way?)
- If you keep doing this maybe you’ll figure out what the hell you’re doing it for and what, exactly, you’re trying to prove.
Okay? So that’s that, ladies.
Now, onto something different.
I did my first radio interview with Feisty Side of Fifty’s, Eileen Williams, at Blog Talk Radio. You can read about it (and listen) at The Perimenopause Blog. You can also go here to listen if you prefer. I must confess, it was a bit nerve racking, but all in all, it went very well.
The Perimenopause Blog is taking off in ways that I didn’t anticipate. I think that is part of my overwhelmed, chicken with the head cut off phenomenon I’ve been experiencing. That, and I can’t seem to do anything without complicating my life with a million other distractions simultaneously. It’s the ADD talking, I’m sure.
My readership is growing. Google seems to be liking me over there and I’m finding myself achieving something in the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) world, called Page Rank. This is a good thing. Trust me on that.
So, the readership is growing, I’m receiving books practically every week to read and review and well, the pressure’s on. The pressure is on to get organized and focused. Now, like I said, already, this is a good thing. But, before anything can get accomplished, well, you have to figure out what you’re going to focus on exactly.
Truth be told? My head is spinning. But, the good thing is, I’m beginning to get a vision for Volume II of my life. Which I find completely fascinating, because, well, when I began blogging in 2007, it was precisely because I was entering a new phase of life and I wanted to talk about it. I wanted to explore it.
Well, I’ve done that, I would say. It’s taken lots of twists and turns and dips and dives. But, much like Michelangelo, the life inside of the material I began with, is starting to take shape.
I still don’t have it all defined or carved out, but, I’m getting there. I’m getting there. Hang with me if you dare.
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Mags
I can’t believe I just heard your voice on the radio interview! Oh my God! you are even fascinating while talking, I thought it was just your writting. It’s been a long time but you through your blogs, which by the way I know were created just to save me from myself. The timing had to be orchestrated by a higher being. The year you started blogging is when my premenopausal button got stuck in “on”. You already know what I think of you, this blogs of yours many times have provided for me that shoulder to cry on, words of hope to save me from a night of desperate and all consuming depression, me finding your blogs was destined, cause God new I was going to need and still do all the help I could get. To say it has been trying is the understatement of the century, I was not ready for this and although I am farther from 50 than I would like to be (I can’t wait to be 50, never, ever thought I would say those words), there are better days more often lately. It is still a battle and one gets tired, but like you said in one of your posts ” this too shall pass”
Love ya Mags!
Take Care, your paranoid friend
“Elliot”
Oh, Elliot, you are the sweetest thing ever! I will be doing another interview next week with Dr. Kenneth Hotze from the Wellness Center in Houston. He is a bioidentical hormone expert and his staff has asked me to do a 3o minute interview with them. So, please come and listen to that interview too!
Yeah. Magnolia has a voice. She really does speak. She’s not just words on a page.
Love you too, Elliot!
Magnolia
Thank you once again for sharing your voice with me on Feisty Side of Fifty Radio. And thanks also for the great review you gave my book, “Land the Job You Love: 10 Surefire Strategies for Jobseekers Over 50.” http://bit.ly/8xi4Oo
As Elliot commented, you do so much to help those with their “permimenopausal button stuck in ‘on’” and it’s great to know that your efforts are recognized and Google is giving you a boost. That way, you’ll reach even a greater audience.
People need to read (and hear) what you have to say.
Congratulations and, once again, thank you my friend!
Hey Eileen,
Thank YOU for giving me the opportunity. You have been far more influential in my blogging “staying power” than you may ever know. Between you and my dear friend Cherie Bell, I’ve had to courage to keep getting up and reaching forward.
I just cannot thank you enough for that. Many blessings to you my friend. Many blessings.
Magnolia
I love Dr. Hotze’s book Hormones, Health and Happiness. I look forward to your post about the interview. Dr. Hotze is at the for front of Bio-identical Hormone Replacement. I wonder if you might ask him what his thoughts are on Natural Hormone Pellet Therapy. Thank you so much for your wonderful website. I have been following your site for sometime.
David