In the process of sorting through the rubble of 2017, I had to find some good sense out of everything that happened. I wanted to write about it, but here is my blog and it is really not 100% of what I envision. One of the first things they tell you to do when planning your blog and your brand is to pick a niche. I’ve realized that is like asking me to define myself in one way or with one word. I just can’t do it. I pride myself on marching to the beat of my own drum. So I wasn’t feeling it yet.
The name of my blog wasn’t easy enough and I got tired of explaining what it meant. I needed to decide on something easy, but defining. My mom is a hippie. My aunts were too. Many of the principles of living life that came from the hippie movement are at the core of who I am. And the biggest thing I am trying to learn is to stay strong even in the storms. Keep your pink clouds of happiness through the darkest hours. I need to be bolder and braver talking about them. We tell our stories to help validate others’ experiences. So my name has changed to Happy Hippy. It will be eclectic (or eccentric, however you want to view it!) and cover whatever I want to talk about, now and in the future. I have refrained from using my personal family name all over the place, but I had to add the hedy. Believe it or not, happyhippy.com (wanted the spellings similar) was for sale for a cool $32-40,000! So hedy was added to reduce the cost by $39,985.
Brevity needs to be my better friend in this venture. I will be posting with fewer words. Who has time for lengthy posts? I have book ideas for those stories. And I will talk more about solutions to express positive actions in all we do in life. I threw in the towel recently, had a meltdown, then Joyce Meyers drug my arse back up, and here we are. I will write about the things I know well, health, traveling, adventure, outdoor activities, strength in character, food, recipes, cooking, libations, life, whatever I feel inspired to share that might help someone else in their own lives. I will talk about God and spirituality. I will talk about health and clean living. I also have created a category of the strange and unusual. Because I am strange and unusual. I have to be bold and be brave.
And eventually, I will be attempting to create my own small business here to have the life I dream of, independent of other people who might rip me off and never pay me. I have to work smarter now, I am trying to make it in a virtual world along with millions of others. I have to do it in my own unique way. And I am finding my inspiration again. I am finding more confidence in this, thanks to my world opening up again. I am finding many self-publishing sites, so a schedule will be made, topics will be listed and I will start taking action, on a regular basis.
And pictures. More pictures. I found a plug-in for my Instagram feed, so check that page out. My cameras aren’t the spiffiest. But I have to make do with what I got, and it will bring me what I need. And I will be ok with that. We spend too much time in life focusing on what we think we aren’t or what we don’t have or can’t do or what we lack. Instead of picking up the tools we do have and creating with what we got, and being ok with it. Why isn’t it ever good enough? IT IS and then some. I’m reminded when people say ‘but I am not perfect’. Fact is, we are perfect just as we are. But expanding, growing, changing, taking chances, and being aware is living life large. I have always tried to live as such and intend to continue.
I am not going to get knocked down again. Here I go!
PS – Facebook seems to have an issue with my change. So I may need to create a new page, because, as we know FB is an idiot.