Every accomplishment starts with the
decision to try
John F Kennedy
I cannot believe my little blog has
reached three quarters of a million readers! I mean, from starting this thing
in my hospital room over 100 miles away from home, to now having over 750,000
readers?! Reaching this milestone, I wanted to use it as an opportunity to give
people a look into the life of a Blogger, what it means, and my tips on how to succeed
in this industry…
Starting off small
I’ll never forget the day I started I’m NOT Disordered; January 6th 2013. I had been an inpatient in a specialist hospital for over a year and had just had a 1:1 with my Key Nurse, Debbie. She asked if every evening, I would start writing little bits about the abuse I had gone through when I was 15. I agreed that I would show a member of staff the writing to give them all a better insight into what I’d been through and why it has affected me so much.
Making this plan felt like a really big step toward recovery and I wanted to document my progress for myself and my friends and family who were so far away that I think it was really hard for them to understand what was going on for me. My decision to use a blog to document that progress was completely random – in fact, it wasn’t really a decision! I just… did it!
So, in the beginning my target audience was literally about ten people, which meant that when I reached 100 readers, another inpatient and I screamed with joy and excitement. We screamed so loud that the hospital staff came running down the corridor pressing their assistance alarms because they thought someone was ‘kicking off!’