I just read a great post that will change my blogging forever.  It is a post by Copyblogger called Why You’re To Qualified and Respectful To Produce Great Content. Pace (the Copyblogger) says you should not qualify or be too respectful or you will sound like you are writing a paper!  That’s me!!  Do you see me waving my hand around?  If you haven’t noticed I am a big perfectionist!  I like to get things right and be nice about it!  Well no more nice Danielle!  Not anymore!

Okay, Okay, I will be nice sometimes!

But seriously,  I am constantly checking my grammar (because mine is not so good) and reviewing what I am saying so that I am not offensive to others.  Well let the real me come out!!  I love using exclamation points!!!  I do because I am very passionate and expressive in real life!  Ask my husband.  So if you don’t want my honest opinion about things then I must say goodbye to you right now.  I must say, I am nice but I have some strong feelings about things.  Some of those strong feelings may rub you the wrong way.  But that is why our country is such a great place to live because we can speak freely and have strong opinions about anything and everything.  Not only that we can have blogs that share those strong opinions.  Sometimes we can even have radio or television shows to share these opinions!

So here is to a new blogging me!

This will be more of the me in real life on my blog.  I am excited.  I feel more free!  I feel liberated in a way.  If I do things wrong I will do them wrong in style!  I would rather, from here on out, be myself and screw up big time then not be me at all.

I have done this often in my life.

In my past I have taken big risks that were really scary.  If I wouldn’t have I wouldn’t have had the blessings I do now!  For instance.  I moved from my home in Washington State to Southern California all by myself.  I knew one person.  I didn’t have a job.  I had a rent payment of $700 and a car payment of $300!  I think about that choice and the me now thinks, the me then was crazy!!  So what came out of it?  I married my husband (of nine years) after six months of being there.  We didn’t know each other beforehand.  I have four beautiful children and a best friend I couldn’t live without!

So from now on I will take those risks again.

I will tell you what is on my mind and be bold about it.  I hope you will stay and find out what happens and how this blog evolves!!

Honestly,

Danielle

PS. Don’t forget to checkout that blog post by Copyblogger!

photo credit: runran