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A blog, or a website, becomes a living thing almost. Especially if it is one which other people can contribute to. Sometimes, walking away can be hard.

Over the last two years, I’ve sold probably 30 websites that I created, nurtured, and then sold because I wished to consolidate my business. Of course, in the grand tradition of ADD, as soon as I ditched one, I took on another, captivated as much by the process of building them as by the need to streamline my life!

Each one of those has come back to revisit me, at least once. A comment, a contact, a question, as they refuse to totally let me go.

Blogs will do it too. If you walk away, and still leave it there, even if you never post again, it is likely to draw you back. Someone will comment. The blog you thought was a failure will suddenly gain attention for an old post. It is rare, but it happens. Like a friend who moves away, but still mails you during the holidays.

Overall, I don’t mind. It sort of makes it easier to let one go, when you know that it will come back to visit now and again.

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Ok, I’m really not torturing him… He broke his elbow two months ago, and just got the cast off three days ago. He could barely move it, and required Physical Therapy to regain movement. It is very painful to him. The PT showed me how to do it, because we are 60 miles from the nearest therapist. I joked that telling a mom that she has to hurt her teenager isn’t a bad thing… But it is an unpleasant thing to have to do.

I’m not fond of hurting my kids. But this is something that needs to be done, because Erik requires it to regain his mobility. The doctors told us that we’d be doing well to regain 70% of normal motion, because of the type of break - right on the ball of the elbow joint. We’ve done about 50%, just in the first few days, but I can see that we are about to hit a wall, as the improvement lessens each session now.

I’ve had to do this kind of thing before - Alex required that I do blood draws on him, both through his Hickman (then Broviac) central line, and then through a port. He didn’t like having blood draws through his port, because it hurt. We did it anyway, because we needed to.

I find that business is like that - any business that you take seriously. You have to do things you don’t like, and sometimes they are painful. But you do them and move on because if you don’t, things get uglier than they are if you just do them.

Blogging is business. Sometimes it is for fun, but here, it is mostly for business. Sometimes you have to do hard things, things you don’t want to do. Blog when you don’t feel like it, promote when you are tired, cut out something you like in favor of something that works.

Those moments are the ones that separate the stickers from the faders. If you stick with it, it works, if you drop it when it gets hard, it fades into nothingness. Blogging is no different than business in that respect

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