I Will Blog My Best Year

” Blog Your Best Year” is a four-hour creative workshop, designed to help define, one’s blogging intentions.

It is one among the many workshops included in the blog-coaching series, conducted by blog mentor Martine de Luna. For Martine, it was selflessly sharing with us, her person, her truth ,her knowledge and her bliss. It helped her gain the love and trust of her readers, leading to her success as Dainty Mom, and now Make It Blissful.

For me, it was an afternoon filled with realizations. It was discovering what truly propels my passion and my life. It was putting greater value on blogging, just as I placed greater appreciation for life.

It was putting meaning into life, and blogging about that meaningful life.

It was sharing a piece of you and carefully putting words into the blog.

But it was owning your words, your opinions and your brand. Blogging is not anymore just a platform, it is a life-form. It is not about you speaking, it is them listening to you speak.

You do not blog, just because. BUT, it is because, that you blog.

-The Soapbox Filipina

Listening to five other women, moms like myself, speak about each other’s purpose in blogging, inspired me to believe in what I can do, as a highly opinionated mom, armed with my pen and my cup of coffee. Diverse our interests might had been, my four classmates and I, shared in the objective of laying out our lives, in blogs that would inspire, impart and persevere.

We were coached into figuring out for ourselves that one word which best embodied our blogs and our lives.

My epiphany of sort, after the workshop, directed me to the word,

ROOTS.

Now, every time I chronicle my life, ROOTS will not be far away. It shall be the ground work for all my endeavors in life, whether in living it, or writing about it.

ROOTS- relying on ones true self.

( and I even thought of an acronym for it )

As a blogger, I want to establish roots, -as someone with something to say.
I want to bring my OFW readers a taste of home, when they read my writings. I want them to know their families are grateful for their hardwork, just as I am with my three brothers and brother-in-law, who are working abroad. ;( And also, thank you my dear readers abroad, who encourage me. Thank you for your messages.)

I want to help them remember their roots, through my every day life as a mom living in the Philippines. I want them to put greater premium on family and kith and kin. I want them to never ever forget where they came from.

Or that they may always remember, the simple joys of dirty ice cream, despite the one hundred and one new flavors which they might chance upon, abroad.

I would also want to write Filipino stuff more. I should encourage my child to be more Filipino, -by reading to him Filipino books and introducing him to other Filipino dishes.
( over and above his love for western books and food.) I hope that next year, my son will be able to join the Filipino contest, -the one major contest in school, which he was not able to join this year.

I would also want to help children in my barangay, develop roots by reading them stories and teaching them how to read. I realized that my beliefs, my opinions, my religion, my being Filipino, my coming from the province, my self-worth as a stay at home mom and my perception of my inner self are all encapsulated in ROOTS.

ROOTS will now be the reference point of every single thing, I would do.

How about you, what is that ONE WORD which best describes your life and your expression of life?

What makes your life move forward, what pushes your passions to work for you?

The Venue

Of course, the coffee.

Hungarian to spice it all up

Planning our blogging lives

with the Mommies: Jaz, She, Gracie, Martine and Row