My July

For the past month of June, I have been getting up at 7 am to walk my dog and workout before having to go to teach swimming lessons at 9 am, and surprisingly, I have turned into a morning person (this is very surprising if you know me lol). Now that swimming lessons are over, I can sleep in until 11:30 if I really wanted to, but I've grown to like getting my day started and having accomplished so much before lunch even rolls around. So why stop? Now these walks with my dog are about 1.8ish miles and take me about 36 minutes (shout out to my Fitbit for all these stats), so that leaves 36 minutes of just me and my mind which I. Freaking. LOVE. I am naturally a creative person, so I let my mind run wild during these walks, and I have come up with so many visions and ideas on these walks and I just need to let them out. Actually, I thought of this challenge during one of my walks. What "challenge" you may be wondering. Well, the whole point of me telling you all this back story leads up to this challenge. I am challenging myself to blog everyday of July. I'm putting no limit on myself - no word limit, no time limit, no topic limit. I just want to write and let out my words. Ideally, I'll get up, walk my sweet puppy, let my mind wander, and then come home and blog it out over a bowl of Special K Strawberry and Yogurt cereal (it's seriously my favorite food right now). So, if you feel compelled to follow along, I would love to have you. But I honestly don't have any expectations for how well these blogs will "perform". The whole reason why I started blogging was because A) I love writing, but most importantly B) I want to help others with my words. So, when I write a blog post, I put a lot of effort into making sure that my words are well written and are full of advice and comfort. I tend to put so much pressure on myself, thinking that it has to be perfect or it won't help anyone. Fun fact: my last two blog posts I had started writing, absolutely hated them, quite writing for a week or two, and then started over from scratch again. SO, these July blogs will not be perfect in anyway. I will not be writing rough drafts and then final drafts. I won't be deleting sentences at a time because I don't think they're good enough. I'll just be writing to write. And I'm excited about it.