Passions. Everyone has passions, whether you’d like to admit it or not. Maybe you have found your passion, maybe you’re still on your emotional journey to find your passion, and that’s okay.
But around 99% of people have found or will find their passion sometime time in their life, and that’s just natural. Maybe your family and friends have loved and supported your passion, maybe they’ve shunned it, maybe you never told them, I’m not sure.
But that’s not my point here.
My point here is from an article I found online called “Why You Need To Have A Passions Project” from an entertaining yet inspiring blog series titled “Successfully Single.” I highly recommend you check it out.
A Passions Project is virtually the idea of having a passion, a lightbulb moment, if you will, and transforming it into a proper project, cultivating it so that the rest of the world or even your close friends can see.
My ‘About’ page on my blog talk about what my blog will be about, but it doesn’t really describe how I started my blog.
So here’s how.
It all started with a fashion magazine, previous failed blogs, and a lightbulb moment when I was just 12 years old.
The fashion magazine, Girlfriend, was about how to start up a successful blog, if I wasn’t already stating the obvious. I had had about three or four failed blogs from when I was 9 and 10, but those quickly faded away and I forgot about them soon after.
So when I was 12, I decided that I would be full on serious about this blog, and try my absolute best, no turning or even looking back.
I wrote a few blog posts for a few months, gave them some catchy titles, and hoped for the best.
Unfortunately things didn’t go so well. I was relentlessly bullied for my blog, especially at school, and while it was popular, it was more in an infamous way than in a famous, positive way.
I eventually ditched the blog and decided to move on with my life.
Three years later, I was scrolling through my old email account and found the blog by accident.
Looking back, I didn’t see my unsuccessful tween fashion blog as a disaster, I saw it more as a learning curve, as a way to improve.
So then and there, I thought to myself about how I wanted to go all in and create a real professional styled blog, not just a half-hearted yet still laughable (looking back, anyway) blog.
So that’s what I did.
Being 15 now instead of twelve, I have much better technical skills and the obvious know-how in case I get attacked online (luckily, this time I didn’t, but my posts now are a lot less cheesier than my posts back then).
I knew I loved fashion from a young age, about ten or eleven, and I did attempt fashion design, but I wasn’t very good at it (especially drawing figures) so instead I decided to try the more practical, yet technical side of fashion, fashion blogging, and preferred it greatly, so that’s what I stuck at. That’s exactly why I love drawbacks and learning curves, so that you can find what you are truly good at.
Passions Project.
Whether it’s blogging, art, sport, or journalling, everyone has something that they want to accomplish.
So go find it.
Signing out,
Girl Overload.
P.S. Here are some of my old blogs just in case you want a good laugh 😉
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