I was running very hard…
Whatever it was I was trying to get away from was overwhelming, stressful, and frightening…
I absolutely had to get away from it.
Had to.
Yet my feet were barely moving…
I relentlessly tried to put one foot in front of the other, yet they were barely moving.
No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t get away from whatever it was I was running from.
…And then I woke up.
But the dream didn’t vanish.
I was still trying to run away.
From life.
You know that feeling you get?
“Tomorrow will be better.
If only I can pass through this hurdle, next week my life will be much easier.
Really.”
And what comes tomorrow?
A new set of problems, hurdles, and obstacles to overcome.
“LifeHitMeOnTheHeaditis”
My friends, this is called LIFE.
We can’t outrun it.
The day we find ourselves at peace with life is the day we die.
Many of you know that my family has been in the process of moving from Arizona to San Francisco area since February.
Yes, you heard me right: February.
New job (for my husband), new schools, new house, new life.
In the past month, it finally got to me. I got so overwhelmed that I stopped looking at my blog.
That was my solution to keep myself from drowning.
After all, it’s only logical to assume that if I, instead of spending an hour a day trying to just stay afloat, answer a few emails/comments, publish a post or two, just ignore my business altogether, it would be easier to handle, right?
Ignorance is a bliss.
If you can’t deal with it, just ignore it.
I am laughing to myself as I type this.
I am sure you can relate though, right?
Sometimes all we seem to have left to do is throw our hands up in the air and say “it’s too much; and what’s the point anyway?”
My Solution
Now that we are all moved in to our new house, most of the boxes are unpacked, and today is the first day I don’t have any contractors roaming through my house, I finally found the courage to come back to my blog and start picking up all the broken pieces.
Even though I am dreading opening my email and facing what’s in store there for me and not looking forward to going through close to a thousand comments I received during my absence (I am sure many of them have “spam” written all over them), I am motivated by this:
“Run in such a way as to get the prize.”
- Apostle Paul; 1 Cor. 9:24
It’s not about the prize.
It’s about the race.
LifeHitMeOnTheHeaditis, the decease known to all men, is finally letting go of me.
This post is my declaration of getting back into the fight.
What’s yours?
What battle have you fought today?
“Help Me Help You”
I am sure you are as excited to see me back as I am.
If not, at least keep it to yourselves and let me think you are.
And let me tell you, I feel like I am starting all over today.
I’ve lived in the vacuum in the past month.
I know NOTHING of the recent updates, changes, goings-on, and need-to-knows.
Let’s help each other out.
You give me your best traffic generation tip you’ve used/read about/thought about in the past month that will help me to bring Traffic Generation Cafe to its past glory.
I will take the best ones and publish them in a (hopefully) epic post.
Everyone wins.
Deal?
Look forward to seeing you in the comment section below.
And one last request: please be patient with me.
If I don’t get to your comment/email/tweet right away, cut me some slack, would you?
I am working on moving a mountain here…
IT’S GOOD TO BE BACK!
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