Given the ebb and flow of all of our lives, blogs will naturally go through different seasons over time. None of the seasons are 'bad' - all have their purpose and all have their tasks that blogger might need to be working on...

Here's an inspiring story from our podcast archives submitted by Brittany Bailey from prettyhandygirl.com. Brittany’s blog is about DIY and she’s going to tell you a little bit more about her blogging journey and share:

• a mistake they made starting out
• something they’re grateful that they did
• a tip for new bloggers
• something good that’s happened since they started.

Back in November of 2002 when I first hit ‘publish’ on my original (and short lived) Blogspot Blog I did so believing that this ‘blogging thing’, which I’d only just heard of, would be a bit of fun. I started for a number of reasons but in short it was curiosity and the hope of a new hobby and perhaps some new connections that drew me to it. At the time I was working three jobs.

Over time, through hard work and discipline, using the techniques I’m going to share with you in these courses, my blogs have grown from a hobby (some would say an obsession), to a part-time, then a full-time job, all the way through to a fully fledged business employing a team of people.