My very first blog post was published in 2021. And I have to admit: I honestly don't remember how I got the idea to get into blogging. It was a time when I wasn't doing well at all, and I felt a need to find my voice again, to be loud, to speak with and for the topics that are important to me. I wanted to become visible. A feeling that arose from the situation. I started taking singing lessons, and I started blogging for the „Boom Boom Blog“ blog challenge by Judith Peters. Initially a bit skeptical and just curious, a significant part of my work began there. Today, I have published 54 blog articles, and my articles cover all the topics that concern me as a person – whether in business or personally.

On the way to the first blog post

On this exciting journey, I naturally thought back then about why I was curious about blogging and what I hoped to achieve through it. I also shared these thoughts in an Instagram post (I created the account on April 25, 2021, by the way). In it, on April 27, 2021, I wrote:

I will be blogging because... not just for one reason, but for several!

• To jump out of one's comfort zone
• Indulge in exchange, cooperation, and shared thinking
• get all the ideas and thoughts out of my head
• much more
• ....

...where would that be better than blogging? Alright, the latter could probably also be done with the help of a diary... but why should I write down things for myself that I've already thought about all day long in my own head? I've tried it, it doesn't work for me.

Shortly before I published the article, I also announced directly on Instagram why I hadn't been blogging up to that point.

To me, blogs were always either online diaries—just without a lock—or a collection of professional articles. Neither interested me, and they were more of a "maybe if I have the time and feel like it" option. One was too personal, the other didn’t offer enough value for the effort required for my purposes. So blogging was always way down on my list. Until @sympatexter came along with her "Dynamic Blogging" strategy. That’s when all the nuances of blogging became clear—and suddenly interesting for me and my business. If it’s not about writing perfectly researched academic articles on a weekly basis, nor about sharing my most private experiences with the world, then—yes, then... ... then I can think of quite a few things to write about. ... then I feel like sitting down and happily writing a post every week ... then I can imagine blogging. So: Here I am. A week behind schedule for #BoomBoomBlog and with a blog post that’s not quite finished yet, which I’ll publish tomorrow, and looking forward to tomorrow’s launch of #TheBlogBang with Judith and Sympatexter and many amazing women with whom I want to conquer the blogosphere.

 

My first blog post

Then the time had come. My first blog post saw the light of day. Of course – how could it be otherwise – my first Article directly a technical contribution. I've put into words why I love the type of coaching I practice. A Psychological Coaching in which hypnosystemic, solution-focused, and highly effective in working with people to find their very own paths to success. It took me a while longer to dare to share personal things with the world.  

In love with blogging, the blogosphere, and the community

After 2.5 months of blogging, it was clear to me: I had fallen in love. With writing, with sharing thoughts, with thinking through writing. In a brief interim assessment I've listed some points back then about what has been achieved through blogging.

• More visibility for my profession and as a person. I realized: until then, many didn't know exactly what I do as a coach, trainer, and consultant. Or that I even am one.
• Rediscovering the joy of writing, that I actually already loved as a child and teenager. I wrote entire poetry collections back then and already came up with stories in elementary school.
• The writing makes my business more concrete with every blog post. and is becoming more and more a part of me.
• A virtual home at „The Content Society“in a community full of creativity, appreciation, and mutual support
• A place for social issues that move me, such as Topic: Femicides.

Even though I have phases now and then where I don't publish much, the blog has become an important part of my business and for me personally. And I'm already looking forward to doing another anniversary retrospective in 10 years (2031). 🙂