Current Vibe | Finding Balance

As I mentioned earlier this week, I wanted to take a minute and get real with you when it comes to my current vibe. Hip Hop Hooray took a mini hiatus about a week ago so that I could take some time off to organize my thoughts and find balance. I was feeling totally uninspired which led to stepping away from the blog to figure out why. Needless to say that time didn't prove to be as helpful as I would have hoped. I did figure out why I wasn't feeling creative, but not what I wanted to do about it moving forward. Let me explain...

A portion of why I was feeling a lack of creativity in the first place was due to a shortage of content. Hip Hop Hooray is a lifestyle blog that covers a wide variety of topics that I love, but my true passion is creating style posts. I simply ran out of new styles to share from my current closet. This isn't the "so go shopping" type of fix, it's more than that. I read somewhere that it is better not to post at all, than to post something you are not inspired by. That concept really stuck with me throughout this last year of blogging, and I honestly feel like it has helped shape the type of content I put out. It really pushes me to create quality content for myself...and for you. I want to post, and I want it to be good. 

So where does that leave me? Good question. I've talked with some friends and family about it and the bottom line is my style has changed. I look at my Pinterest and don't recognize half of it as something I would pin again today. I jump on Facebook and feel so disconnected to it now. I've grown, and I want my little spaces of online real estate to reflect that change. I see my blog and have sooo many rad ideas on how to improve it moving forward, but I'm not sure If I have the resources to pull it off. Frankly, I probably don't have the resources to pull it off. 

So at the end of the day I'm contemplating doing something dramatic. Something that would take an incredible amount of dedication, time, and commitment on my part. If I'm going to move forward with the blog (which I'm quite honestly super undecided about) I need to change it. I need to change a few things actually...

That's all for now! Come back tomorrow to read part two of my current vibe where I propose just the kind of change I've had in mind. 

Ps. I realize there are way bigger problems in the world than the state of my closet. But for purposes of the blog, i wanted to share my head space in terms of what's been going down behind the scenes. Thanks for understanding and knowing me well enough to know this is a small, yet imperative part of what I do. 

Double X's and O's on this one,

T.