Finding your purpose: The evolution of a blog.

To give you a better idea of where I am right now and how this online space has transformed into the epic platform that it is now – I think it’s useful to start at the beginning: somewhere about 6 years ago. Although this post is technically about the evolution of my space on the web, it is also an evolution of me, and how I’ve come to a place of truly finding my purpose.

But it definitely hasn’t always been this way.

For a very long time, I’ve always felt like I have something really magical to offer this world. Creative, unique, funny, inspiring magic – all bubbling up inside me.

This is of course an extremely wonderful feeling to have, except when you aren’t quite able to put your finger on the exact purpose of all this magic – or how exactly it’s supposed to “get out there”, or what you’re really supposed to be doing with it all. It’s the feeling of having so many ideas and things you could create – so you just end up trying to CREATE IT ALL. (I designed digital scrapbook papers, teaching lesson plans, greeting cards, wedding stationery, DIY card packs, I blogged, hand made things, did graphic work, I started writing a cartoon book, I made doodle books, and, and, and…) And then in all this, feeling like you’re putting in so much effort to create and make and brew all this wonderful magic and then feeling like it’s just going no where.

 

Let’s back track: about 6 years ago – I was probably about 25 or 26 at the time, I was living in South Korea teaching english and had recently been “introduced” to the online world: to creative blogs and blogging, to Etsy and to people making a living in the online space in various wonderful creative ways. I had also recently started a blog (indieberries – the very old remnants of which you can still find on indieberries.blogspot.com 🙂 (BLOGSPOT. ha! The MySpace of blogging.)

{side bar: I randomly decided to log into that old account (when I eventually remembered how) and I see that it’s had a total pageview history of 5 289 574 views! Those were some good times. Anywhoo…}

I came home on holiday to South Africa one year whilst I was still living in South Korea, we had had dinner and everyone had gone to bed – leaving my dad and I in the kitchen, having a glass of wine.

I remember feeling so completely despondent with life and telling my dad how completely and utterly frustrated I was from the feeling of having all this “stuff” that I had to share and give and just feeling like it wasn’t really going anywhere.

My very wise dad – who I think could see how desperate I was with all this built up creative frustration turned to me and I very clearly remember him saying –

“Everything that you are doing in your life right now, all the experiences, all the ideas, all these things are all taking you somewhere.”

Technically, I knew what he meant (even though it still left me feeling frustrated with life),
but I didn’t quite understand what he was saying in the same way that I do now.

And NOW, I one hundred percent know that everything in my life (the creative frustrations, the wild blogging, the making/cartooning/creating/the yoga/my personal journey) has perfectly lead me up to this point here today.

And I think this shift in truly knowing what he meant has come with me finding my purpose.

Finding your purpose:

Back in the days when I first started blogging and trying to share this “random/witty/creative/fun/crafty magic”, I just dived in and began sharing. Mainly bits and pieces of my personal life, funny cartoons – (like that one time I made a “new friend” on an airplane) – crafty things and very random humour.

I look back at some of those old posts and think –

have you no filter

I mean – do you REALLY think people are THAT interested in seeing how creepy your feet are? (I mean, really.)

Anyway – so many of those old posts (as is the case with most personal blogs), are pretty self indulgent – sharing bits and pieces of my personal life and basically keeping an online journal. Which is entertaining to read (as generally most humans are pretty curious beings), but it doesn’t really serve a purpose.

And really knowing what is it that I am here to do has helped create more focus and direction for this online space and more importantly led me to create a brand new members area – which I am so excited about!

My purpose is to inspire people to live healthy, happy, creative and more fulfilled lives.

And just like my very wise dad said many years ago – everything that I have done up until now, has led me perfectly to this point.

It’s the cumulation of this well of creative magic and all the yoga training and practice that I have done that’s brought me to a place where I know exactly what I want to share, in a way that isn’t just random fun, but in a way that really serves others.

Of course, there is still loads of random fun – and you can ask my husband* to confirm that I’m still SO CARTOONISHLY-HILARIOUS –

(*contractually obligated to agree)

But now, it all just has a bit more purpose.

And it’s a purpose that will serve YOU in creating a more creative, fulfilled, healthy life – through journal prompts, DIY ideas, movement, tutorials, meditation and soul work.

And if you’d like to join to see what it’s all about – you can head over here.

Each season has a different theme – with DIYs, Journaling, yoga flows, tutorials, inspiration, podcast recommendations, meditation, creative prompts and exercises connected to the theme.

I know for sure that this is really the exact place I am meant to be and exactly what I am meant to be sharing in a way that is purposeful, intentional and best serving those that stop by.

This is my “somewhere” that my very wise dad told me about all those years ago.

We’re kicking off 2018 with the theme of HAPPINESS and I’d love for you to join us!

CLICK HERE to join us!

 

 

 

4 Comments

  1. Bobbi on January 4, 2018 at 11:29 am

    So proud of you and happy for you and excited for you, love!!! Sending you every last drop of love in the world!!

    • Che Dyer on January 4, 2018 at 2:13 pm

      thank YOU lovely Bobbi! I’m hoping for a year of more blogging!

  2. angel on January 8, 2018 at 5:35 am

    I also have the same feeling – I feel like I have so much to offer to others, and yet whenever I check all the stuff I’ve been doing to share my knowledge, it seems like a dead end. I’m going nowhere. It frustrates me a lot. I don’t even know what I what to achieve now.

    It’s a great thing because your dad really blessed you with such a wonderful wisdom. Through this blog post of yours, I think you shared that wisdom with me the way your dad shared it to you. And I think I just need to give it a little more shot. I am going somewhere. I can’t quit.

    • Che Dyer on January 8, 2018 at 1:41 pm

      Absolutely! Don’t give up! I was honestly where you are now and I know how frustrating it can feel. But it is all leading you somewhere. You just have to try and get clear on your PURPOSE or your WHY not your what, and then it will all start falling into place. Keep on going!! <3

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