Onwards And Upwards!
I'm back and ready to push on!
Hey everyone!
Firstly, I’m sorry it has been so quiet on here for the past couple of weeks. I promised you all I’d be delivering content every single day, and that obviously hasn’t happened.
I also promised this would be a space we could be open and honest with each other.
So, with that in mind, I wanted to lift up the curtain and just shed some light on the last couple of weeks. I won’t give a blow-by-blow account, rather consider this more of a Cliff Note’s version of why I disappeared.
Firstly, I’m okay, thankfully. I had a family issue to deal with and that became my priority, understandably. Everything is trending in the right direction now and hopefully life can start to return to normal.
Whatever normal is.
But, for two weeks or whatever it was, I was fully consumed by doing what was required of me on the family front and, by the time evening came around, I was physically and mentally wiped which meant the laptop just sat there and collected dust.
It proved to be a tough period of time all round.
First and foremost, it was a worrying couple of weeks on the family front but, again, thankfully we’ve turned a corner and all seems to be okay. That’s the main thing.
But, on a more personal note, I really, really, really struggled not writing everyday and having to abandon both the site and the podcast on a short-term basis.
Obviously, when you are in the early days of setting up any business, consistency is key and that’s especially the case when you are attempting to build an audience on a blog such as this. Writing every single day is key and it has been frustrating that a lot of the fun features I had planned had to be put on the shelf for a New York minute.
And, for anyone who knows me, I’m not very patient and I’m also my own worst enemy when it comes to not giving myself a break. Even though this particular situation was unavoidable and just a byproduct of life, I’ve still beaten myself up and given myself a hard time for not delivering on the promises I made.
Your support means the world to me and I’ve felt like I’ve let you all down, which has eaten away at me a hell of a lot over the past few days especially.
I’m going to do everything I can to put that right. Starting today.
Plus, there’s been so much going on in the sports world and it has bugged the life out of me that I’ve not been able to jump on and write about the NBA Playoffs getting underway, how incredible the rule changes have been in MLB, the insane amount of baseball I’ve been able to watch and the fact that the greatest postseason of them all - the Stanley Cup Playoffs - begins tonight.
Not to mention the upcoming NFL Draft. And the incredible ending to the NCAA Frozen Four tournament. And the absolute joy that is College Baseball - which I could just watch all day long. You get the picture.
We’re in the sweet spot of sports right and I can’t wait to get back to writing about it all.
Not to mention the fact that writing is like therapy for me. Just as Dani Rojas enthusiastically and constantly declares how ‘Football is life’ in the brilliant Ted Lasso series, writing is life for me. It’s who I am. I can’t be me unless I have a pad and pen. Or my Apple Mac to be more precise.
We aren’t in the stone ages anymore. Even if I do turn 30 this week…
Anyway, I digress.
The point is, my mental health has also taken a dip over the past couple of weeks due to a perfect storm of triggers. The family stuff we’ve been dealing with, the stress that comes with that, being constantly away from the laptop and not being able to do what I love.
That’s been one of the hardest things - not having the outlet to write and to assuage whatever has been going on in my life and in my head. Writing is my most reliable clutch, it is my ultimate solace, my true source of comfort.
Writing is an essential part of my life. As a career, as a hobby, as a lifestyle choice, as a very way of living, and it is at the very core of who I am as a person.
I’d be lost if I didn’t have writing in my life.
Therefore, I’m pumped to be writing this right now and I’m also very, very excited about the couple of pieces I’m working on to release later on today. I can’t find the words to describe how great and how soothing it feels to be back at the laptop with a massive cup of hot coffee, my trusted yellow legal pad on the side full of notes and baseball on in the background (someone needs to tell the weather in Boston to get a grip).
In other words; it feels freaking good to be back.
So, all that is left to be said is thank you for sticking around, thank you for your patience and thank you for your continued support of Blogs Of Steele.
Let’s get this show back on the road!
(The Andrew Steele Podcast will be back later this week too).
Andrew.
