Notes from a Digital Life · Happy Interior Blog

Howdy dear audience (if there are any audience remaining)! What took place to blogging? If only I understood. I have missing a bit my mojo I consider. Also this digital life has become fairly draining – I sort of truly feel it far more and extra after virtually three many years of freelancing and mainly doing work by myself from household. Don’t get me completely wrong, I am delighted, I like what I do. But at times I sense like it is much too repetitive, it is way too superficial, it is irrelevant, monotonous – did I mention repetitive? Effectively even the words in this article turn out to be recurring.

Occasionally I wallow in memories and find it all very astonishing. Not a lot of of you will know, but I examined international business enterprise administration and economics and when I was a pupil social media wasn’t a point nonetheless. I believe it was the early ages of some scholar networks these as early Facebook and some German counterparts that I understood as an individual dwelling and finding out in Austria. Imagining a expert occupation in the digital globe or extra specifically in the sphere of social media was just unimaginable. And but here I am, complete time influencer. Oh how I despise the phrase. I actually do. Influencer? As if I am sitting at dwelling and earning conspiratorial options on how to affect and seduce you. You know, like acquire this, invest in that, increase extra crops (okay responsible for the latter at least).

I have consciously selected this ‘career’ path. Do you see how I set the phrase profession in quotation marks? Yup, because I typically want to influence myself that this is my task now. That this IS a occupation at all. Nonetheless I speculate: Is it genuinely a task? Or am I just fortunate to be using the digital wave and obtaining identified my area of interest to make my residing with it? I sometimes are inclined to neglect the route that led me to where by I am right now. Yrs and many years of non end blogging (sure again then I blogged six periods a 7 days) and constant networking on Twitter (these were the several years). And all of this I did for several years in a row whilst also possessing a complete time career in PR and marketing and advertising businesses (with all the glamour of piling surplus hours and shoddy fork out). These were days where I would commence operating at 9 am and end at property at 1 or two am. Going to mattress, waking up, and doing all of it all over again the next day. For several years and years. And then I gradually managed to build my weblog, my social media existence, create a neighborhood of plant enthusiasts, produce one particular reserve , then an additional, work on layout and styling projects, give lectures, host programs and so on. And now I am a freelancer. Total time ‘influencer’. Total time performing from house. Full time thinking if this is truly suitable and fulfilling. Tons of whole in this article. Repetitive and recurring.

I just reread my final paragraph and I do get the notion that this could audio a little bit adverse or disillusioned. But neither is true to be honest. I am joyful, I like what I do, I just marvel if this is what I want to do for the following a long time to occur. I wrote books. I did style assignments. I worked as a speaker and training course host. So what is upcoming? I do not know myself but I want a little something new to show up on the horizon. Some thing that would obstacle me once more and motivate my creativeness and understanding. Hit me up if you have suggestions:-)

In the meantime rest confident that I am fortunately sharing what conjures up me and what retains me heading creatively – primarily on Instagram (and sure, I desire the time period inspirator over influencer). But I want to be way additional energetic below on the weblog too from now on (many thanks Holly from Decor8 for constantly reminding me of running a blog). It previously feels much more considerable writing a lengthier textual content than just a handful of traces of an IG caption. And whether or not or not anybody is reading through this – it will be out there driving the digital wave and whoever surfs by, enjoy the journey and the browse!

In the meantime, come to feel free of charge to arrive and stop by me on this residence tour by Westwing (incl. a online video tour and some plant strategies) – it is the most the latest tour of my Berlin apartment!

Photography by Westwing