During my attempts to figure out last week’s blog post, I realized one night that it was time to change things up further. But in trying to do that, I figured I should refine things first. 

What followed was a lot of back-and-forth thoughts centering around numerous things. Thus, between last Friday and now, I decided it was finally time to start cleaning up the source of said thoughts. In that case, it meant taking a good look at the kinds of things I’ve been doing, what I’d like to do differently, and whether or not I can reasonably introduce newer ideas I’d been considering for a while.

3/5

I started to think that I should distill the blog categories yet again. Mostly to condense the focus here into something a little more simple. I thought of this because with all the various types of entries I do, I began to think that the focus might seem a little all over the place to anyone who’s new here.

I mean, there’s the fun stream-of-consciousness stuff I do with Mingled-up Musings, but then there’s thought pieces, things about me, introspective thoughts, and pop culture pieces like reviews. So with all those being the thing, I feel like I should have a simple clear answer when someone asks, “What’s the focus here? What’s it about?”

I had to figure out what thinking about all this could possibly lead to, and went to sleep with a bit of an idea, but wasn’t too sure yet.

3/6

Nothing new happened this day, though I did try to lean into the idea of changing up the branding and overall idea. A change in the tagline felt like a good place to start, and yet I didn’t want to overthink it.

In short, this was enough to get me thinking on how to better describe the blog and what I like to do here.

3/7

Nothing new happened on this day in terms of figuring out the content stuff, as I was getting ready for a friend’s birthday party. It was mostly a day for me to take my mind off things, and I’m glad I did this. It felt nice catching up with her and it gave me more re-assurance that I do have an awesome friend I hope to stay in touch with for the years to come.

3/8 to 3/9

New week of work started, so I had to get back into the groove of things and relax a bit more. And I did begin to wonder if there’s a better way to get others into the fun stream-of-consciousness writing style that is Mingled-up Musings. I suppose it’s surrealism in a way, and there’s a the randomness between the type of humor and vibe I go for in these entries. I know there’s people who like that sort of thing, but it does feel like a niche sort of area. Thinking about it reminded me of something that someone once told me. “It’s like a view at the top of a mountain. It can be nice and rewarding for you, but not everybody may want it.”

Ultimately, I realized that I shouldn’t overthink it. I told myself, “Just call them random thoughts.” That conveys everything and it’s enough to start with in terms of branding. I slept a little better that night.

Kind of.

3/10

I spent a lot of time writing a sort of breakdown on why various ideas were on my mind, why I want to do them, how I’d do them, and whether or not right now really is the time to look into them. These ideas mainly consist of the podcast I’ve always wanted to do, videos, and a digital magazine I’d like to create.

Ultimately, I found that podcasting would require some things I’m not yet ready for in terms of where I’d host it and being able to fit it into a schedule. It’s definitely something I want to do, but in looking at why the idea is intriguing to me right now, I found that I can do impromptu personal voice recordings for fun like I used to, without worrying about editing and uploading them on a scheduled basis. The purpose of that would be to give myself the chance to “Let it all out” and then pull from that to generate blog posts and anything else.

With videos, I’m still going to start with straight-forward Behind-the-Scenes videos. I announced it on Instagram not long ago, and it’s still what I’ll start with since it’ll be relatively easy compared to all the crazy original shows I want to do later on. I just need to remind myself to film B-roll footage of me writing and working on stuff like this.

And as for the magazine, that’ll make more sense to do later on. I love the idea of doing it, but with all the things I’d want to create for it, and all the things I want to do here for the blog, time is the main issue. That’s okay though, because there’s still plenty of fun to have here.

3/11

Okay, so the branding is little more fleshed out and refined.  This place is now described as, “Random thoughts fueled by pop culture and life musings.” I feel like that’s solid and really lets others know what to expect. It’s sure to evolve and maybe change as I introduce other ideas, but it works and it does explain what I do here.

After that, I decided to have fun on Instagram and reminded myself that I do want to experiment with social media stuff as well. Because even though I like posting the occasional cat photos, I do have ideas for posts I want to do more of. It’s just a matter of reminding myself and doing it more often.

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So that’s it. Those are the thoughts I’ve had throughout the last week. Since this was easier and more straight-forward than other entries, I feel like this could be a secondary blog post. And because it’d be a secondary entry, I’m thinking I should do it on a different day of the week so people could get something extra to look forward to.

This is actually something I’ve been wanting to do for a while, so it feels nice to finally do it. And even though a majority of the week’s thoughts were focused on figuring out Behind-the-Scenes stuff, my idea is to actually go into the fun random thoughts that come to mind, since that’s where some ideas for Mingled-up Musings come from. I could even implement some day-in-the-life sort of stuff here and there, maybe go for hybrid of thoughts.

Anyway, let me know what you think and I’ll be back with a follow-up entry. Until next time, have a good one!