I'm not sure about this blog anymore
Does that sound familiar: you hesitate doing a creative project that you usually do? It sounds like a whispering in your head - but you slog on. Until it chimes like a hooting horn.
Out of thin air you realize that you were on the wrong path all along and you got diverted by someone else’s goal, not your own.
This happened to me these days when I thought I should do at least 5 blog posts about photography so that the reader can see me as an expert of photography.
Which leads to a better SEO and in turn leads to more readers.
Altough I’m doing this blog for the friends of nature and sustainable business, I do it for free.
Shouldn’t free work be joyful and make you thrive?
Not all the time, but in general as an underlying emotional state.
I think yes.
So I looked back to what I wrote in my “online editing journal” a few months ago, why I started this blog: my inital goal was to create intuitive multi-media post, with photos, videos, texts and audios.
Where I interview eco-people.
Friends say I’m a good listener and I like meeting different (from me) people who tell fascinating stories, the ones I didn’t know before.
That’s what I plan to do next year in 2024 - going out in the world and reporting about environmental topics.
I don’t know how much time I can invest in it, after all it’s a creative project.
But I feel inspired by the journalists I met lately and interviews of media people who do their “own thing”.
What is your own thing that keeps lingering in the back of your head, that needs to get out there and wants to unfold in real life?
Let me know in the comment!
If you still need a gift idea for your loved ones, these 2 books might be right for you:
Influence is Your Superpower by Zoe Chance
The title sounds like an influencer-guide, but it’s rather an insight into the art of influencing people to make the world a better place.
Chance talks about her students, who support an Argentinian nature conservation group through implementing profound fundraising ideas.
In a storytelling way she writes about how to bargain better salary and how she escaped dubious men as a teenager with her courageous best friend.
German version - Der Gute Einfluß
Nowhere Left to Go by Benjamin von Brackel
Environmental journalist von Brackel meets biologists in South America among other countries to hear about wild animals moving to northern latitudes or higher up the mountains in order to escape unbearable heat.
It’s not so much constant heat that endangers populations, rather the heat waves to which they are not able to adapt.
That’s the reason for Europe fighting over the fishing rights in the Atlantic, because schools of fish move to cooler water - far away from where they lived before.
Um, could it be that we shoot ourselves in the foot?
German version - Die Natur auf der Flucht
Wishing you a peaceful Solstice! May the new year bring success and satisfaction to you.
Benja