I realize it’s been a little crickets around here; I’ve been posting sporadically. I realized half of my problem was that I never mapped out an editorial calendar for the month of December, so three days without posting will pass and then I’m like, “Oh crap! I need to post!”
I have plenty to write about, I do. I’ve just been so caught up in re-strategizing my business that I’ve been forgetting to post and do even simple things like, um, eat. True story. I get so caught up in what I’m doing because I so genuinely enjoy it that all of a sudden it’s 4pm and I’m wondering why my stomach is growling so loudly and why I’m suddenly so light-headed.
I’m getting myself organized: my office is finally painted, furnished, and I’m all cozy in my little corner of the house. Papers are kind of sorted, I have a stack of business cards to start scanning and a lead sheet ready to go. I’m remarkably energized at a time of year when I’m normally just barely trudging by.
As for posting, they’ll be back to the regular Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule. You can also get my posts via email by subscribing here so you don’t have to physically come back (or add me to your Reader of choice).
In fleshing out a posting calendar for the next couple of weeks, it reminded me something I’d been meaning to write about for weeks.
A wise woman once told me:
“You have to A-S-K to G-E-T.”
I mentioned that two weeks ago I was at the Massachusetts Conference for Women. This wise woman I speak of is Lena West, CEO & Chief Social Media Strategist at Influence Expansion. She has lit a fire under me like I can’t even explain.
I’ve written before about WEGO Health. They’re a health activist start-up based here in Boston, and they do some pretty amazing work with connecting health activists with one another and to a variety of resources in the public and private sectors. They’re a neat company all around.
Anywho, WEGO has announced their first-ever Health Activist Awards for 2011. They have a bunch to which folks can submit their nominations. You’re even encouraged to submit yourselves!
Remember that A-S-K to G-E-T bit I mentioned?
If you’d like to nominate me, that would be just swell. 🙂
But I’m also asking you to nominate other bloggers – infertility or otherwise – who have done amazing health activist work this year. I’d especially love to see the ALI community rally around the Best Kept Secret Award:
They aren’t featured on every top 10 list on the web, or overflowing with followers, “friends,” and audience members. But they should be.
I know some of you might be asking… “Just what is a Health Activist? Am I one?”
Answer: Yes.
You’re writing about your infertility, your adoption journeys, your losses, your joys, your triumphs – all of it. You each help to give infertility, endometriosis, PCOS, RPL, POF/POI, azoospermia, unexplained infertility, and all these other diagnoses a face and a story. Whether you write anonymously or not, you help make the disease of infertility more real.
In that way, we’re all health activists.
And it’s time we nominate and recognize each other for this work we ALL do.
So take a few minutes today, peruse the awards, and nominate the bloggers out there who deserve some serious kudos. I know I have probably at least 2-3 bloggers I could nominate for EACH award.
So what are you waiting for? Put a little good karma out there. Send out a little health activist love. Nominate your faves today!
