Day 13 – Take A Trip To The Mall And Improve Your Blog
Did I just read that right? Go to the mall? Well you don’t have to tell me twice. BYE! Oh wait guess I should read the rest of the information today before I leave. Seriously you are telling a girl to go shopping and expect her to stay still and keep reading. What a cruel joke. I did sign up though which means I kind of made a promise to myself to listen to what is being told to me so I did stay put and finish reading.
What did I learn from reading instead of running out the door to go shopping? First and foremost I learned what we all need to remember. The most important thing ever. Get out of the house! How can you possibly have anything to write about and inspire you if you are behind your computer 100% of the time. While you are out do some people watching, some window shopping, just watch the world go by. Doing this you can see so much and get inspiration for your blog. You can see some great store display that gives you ideas for tweaking the look of your blog. You could also see some hot item that everyone is interested in, maybe it will inspire a blog post for you. It could work, use the right keywords and these very same people may end up finding your site.
Today I did not go to the mall. Main reason being our mall SUCKS! I hate our mall. I like Wal-Mart though. I went there yesterday. Spent $260 by going into wal-mart and knowing all I actually needed to buy was dog food. There are posts on here inspired by shopping though. Best example being the post Tobei did called Inner Child Never Dies. If he had not gone out that day he would have never had the experience for that blog post. Then there was my post Please Don’t Leave Me. Again if it wasn’t for us going out that day we would have never had that experience.
So while we all love blogging and “meeting” new blog friends we must always remember that the real world is the best place to live. Get out in the real world and live life. You never know when real life may bring some inspiration to your blog.
I went out and experienced real life again today. We went to an indoor play place as it was the only kid friendly thing open in my city past 5. We had a blast and I had to bribe Little Man with a doughnut to leave. It did inspire me with a new blog post which will be shared later tonight if I find time.
Where do you find inspiration? Do you ever see something and think it will make a great post or inspire your design? Do you remember to still experience real life and step away from the computer?