'OH HERE WE GO AGAIN' - THE INTRO

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to my new blog The SOA Blog,

Now you are probably thinking 'What's with the title?' Well, Blogging has been something that's not only just happened for me, I had a blog around 4 years ago which used to get quite a lot of views (especially for something that wasn't as popular back then as it is now), it was based around kind of the same thing as this blog, Fashion, Lifestyle that sort of thing. I know quite a lot of people who know me will be thinking, 'oh here she goes' and they are right, i'm probably one of the most indecisive people ever, to the point where it even annoys me, I honestly have struggled to find balance, i guess i have known deep down that it is in fact blogging that i have wanted to do but it's so difficult and a difficult industry to break into and with that you aren't always guaranteed to succeed and able to make it a full time job.

Why didn't i stick with it? well i suppose lack of self belief which i still struggle with, i just didn't think i was very good at it. I didn't think it was a smart move for me to just stick at it and have no source of income, back then blogging was nothing like it is now, it wasn't really as big as it is now, social media was completely different and the opportunities were few and far between, I'm 21 now so back then i was quite young and well quite frankly, lost!

At that age i still had no idea what i wanted to do in life, i knew i wanted to be involved in fashion in some way but wasn't quite sure what... I had just been through quite a traumatic time with losing my dad and i knew i didn't want to go back to college, i absolutely hated school and college for me was no different, i studied Fashion Retail for a few months and so in my eyes, the only thing i thought i could do was go into retail basically, so i did, up until about Dec 2016.

At the back of my mind blogging has always been there and i've gone back and forth about starting up again but the low confidence for me is what's held me back, i know it's my passion, I know i can do it but it's such a competitive business now and so different to years ago when i was doing it. My friends and family will probably see this and think, 'It won't last long' but this time is different, I know in my heart this is what i'm meant to do and i'm going to power through my lack of self belief and MAKE it work.

In a later post i will talk about what the actual turning point (or points i guess) was for me to trust my gut and give it a go again! I feel like i've rambled on a bit to much in this one and it sounds a bit boo-hoo haha but that's not at all what this was, It's just a brief explanation of why i'm doing this and why i haven't in the past!

This blog is going to be totally honest and unfiltered and fashion filled! I'm going to bring you lots of my high street mixed with designer wardrobe and just talk about things that i feel need to be shared and spoken about!

I hope you subscribe and return to my blog to keep up to date with all my new posts!

Thanks for reading!

SOA x