It’s been one of the longest summers that I can remember, which definitely followed one of the longest winter’s I can remember in a really long time. As I looked around me I saw more and more of my blogging friends slowly start to blog less. It’s not that we have less to talk about it’s just that blogging is bloody hard work. Oftentimes I do feel as though running Broken Kode is a full time job.

The past month has definitely felt the pangs of blogger burn. I’ve got less energy to blog about things that I feel passionate about. For some reason I seemed to have lost a bit of the way regarding what it is that made me blog in the first place. I started blogging to get all the floating ideas and thoughts in my head, out of there to free the clutter. It’s my therapy. Sadly I’ve not been using it as much as I wanted to, which can be attributed to a number of reasons.

1. My style of writing has changed in recent years and the latest tweak for my site will reflect that change in style significantly.

<li>I've been currently designing not one, not two but 5 websites. All in various stages of development, I should have two out in the next couple of weeks.</li>
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Work has been seriously wearing me down slowly but surely. I hate going into work. Not because of the place, not because of the company, but because of the projects and the external people I have to interact with every single day. Some I find great to work with, others I find myself finding some SERIOUS contempt towards. Their entire existence at this moment in times seems to be only to make my life a living misery. I have started taking certain steps to distance myself, sadly some of these won’t come to bear fruit for many months to come, which obviously isn’t doing my psyche much good to be honest.

So hopefully with these few elements getting crossed off my list I should be back to blogging with a vengeance in the near future. July and August accounted for the single worst months for blogging since I started blogging in January 2004, hopefully I can pull the rest of this god forsaken year from the doldrums and finish it off with a bit of a bang, after all I am a natural born optimist.

Sorting Myself Out

Which brings me to my latest initiative, 'Sorting Myself Out'. This is a new initiative which I've started because it's September. I love September. It's the start of the new school year. The temperature is cooler and London is more pleasant. As with all things, it's best to start at that which is closest. So the first element that got sorted was my room. I've been meaning to do some spring cleaning since May; I only got round to it last week. I spent 6 hours going through every single book and piece of paper in the room to make sure I archived what I needed and got rid of what I didn't need. I still have to sort out my bookshelves, followed by a serious revamp of my wardrobe and then I'm going to sort out my computer and all my files.

Another element of my life that I have seriously neglected were my expenses. It’s not that I’m short of cash or anything, it’s just that I’ve really not been making my money work for me in the right way. I hadn’t sorted out my expenses for the past year or so and the list goes on. It’s another fantastic thing to have ticked off the list of things to do, which allows me to continue doing things that I really actually enjoy doing.

Once I’ve removed the clutter in my life I should be able to reclaim my life back and sort myself out.