Just rolling with it…instead of this…
Today I decided to change the name of this blog from “Just rolling with this…” to “Just rolling with it…”. Big deal, right? I’m glad you said that because it’s exactly what I’m thinking. Well, at least that’s what I’m thinking now. The funny thing to me is that not too long ago this would have been a big and agonizing decision for me, that probably would’ve resulted in me not changing the name after a lot of mind exhausting internal deliberation.
As I’ve written about before, I started this blog while on a vacation to Puerto Rico that was unexpectedly extended by an extra week. One sticking point that was keeping me from actually starting to write was naming the blog. I wrestled with my thoughts for a while, trying to get the name just right. I finally said to myself that I just need to roll with this and get started. So there’s the genesis of the original blog name. I told myself that the choice didn’t have to be perfect and that I could change the name any time I wanted to change it.
This last part, allowing myself to change the name any time I wanted to change it, was the big change in my mindset that removed one of the final roadblocks I put in place myself. Before I would’ve been overly concerned about changing the name, as it could do things like cause me to change domain names, email addresses and social networking sites. The overarching themes that I was carefully weaving would have to be painstakingly reorchestrated. Every post would have to be carefully redited to remove any traces of the previous name. In the process, I’d confuse the loyal and massive readership that I would have acquired by now, readers would abandon the blog en masse, out of frustration, and I’d be back to square one. Uh oh…
Or…maybe not ☺
Please let me start by saying that I am extremely grateful to those of you who have even partially read a single post on this site. That really means a lot to me and I appreciate it very much. The blog seems to have attracted a very small, however somewhat loyal following in the short time it’s been around so far. I’m very thankful to each and every one of you for that. Please keep reading and if I could even go so far as to ask you to send a link to one post that may have connected with you on to a friend, I’d be extremely grateful!
That said, the massive readership I was afraid of losing early on hasn’t materialized…just yet, as I’m still hopeful and optimistic. So the concern of antagonizing a large reader base really hasn’t materialized. Changing all the other stuff like email addresses and domain names wasn’t necessary, since I didn’t really customize them. The social network updates are pretty simple too. I’m not going back to edit any previous posts because after thinking it through, it probably just really doesn’t matter that much. All I really have to do is just change one word in the title.
I guess what I’m explaining to myself is that just rolling with this, rather than let these other concerns hold me back was, in hindsight, the right way to go at the time. Additionally, the benefits I’m experiencing from just rolling with it and writing seem to far outweigh anything else I could’ve done to try and get things just right, before starting to write. I’m guessing that had I focused on trying to get everything just right, that the process would’ve probably just ended up delaying me from just rolling with this…I mean it ☺