Blogiversary | A Year In Review

Sveeteskapes turned one year old on 24th Dec 2016 and I celebrated it with cupcake, confetti and my darling hubby (my rock, without whose unconditional love and support I wouldn’t be doing what I do)…

365 days, 67 posts (though my goal was to publish 70-75 posts, this is pretty darn close), almost 1K Facebook and almost 10K Instagram followers (made it to the 10K club this week, wohooo! talk about starting the New Year with a bang!) and over 50 collaborations later, it’s time to toast to my One Year Blogiversary and look back at the incredible year 2016 has been!!!

P.S: Though it’s been two weeks since, you are just seeing this post as it was just impossible to hide the bump in these pics (can’t you tell ;), so the BIG ANNOUNCEMENT post preceded this Blogiversary post 😉

2016 for me was predominantly occupied by my blog and everything related to the blog, goes without saying if you have been closely following my Blog and Instagram 😉 I will be honest with you, when I launched the blog on Dec 24th 2015, all I knew was I wanted to write about the topics I am strongly passionate about, but beyond that, I didn’t know what to expect from it, didn’t have the faintest idea how it was going to change my life, and didn’t even remotely think how much it would help me grow (in ways I had never imagined) as a person, as a blogger, and as an entrepreneur… Forget that, I didn’t even have a clue that I had such a flair for writing, which BTW still amazes me every single day (given I was never a fan of writing, unless, of course it was a Facebook status message, my friends and the hubs can vouch for that haha)!

They say (or I might just be making this up ;)), if you do something, do it for a year, CONSISTENTLY, and if you still love what you do, then you are meant to do it. I can proudly say, not only did I blog for a year, but I did so consistently (except for when I was on vacation or was planning one), and the best part is that my LOVE for BLOGGING (and everything else associated with it, well, maybe not everything but most of it) only grows by the day! And back when I celebrated my 6 Months Blogiversary (can you tell milestones are freakishly important to me :)), I shared some incredible lessons I learned as a blogger and as a business owner… Though I continue to learn and grow everyday, everything I shared in that post largely remains the same and I have a feeling they are lessons of a lifetime. Lessons even I go back to and read every so often myself (especially when I a have need for a bout of motivation).

Looking back at this blogging journey, I am absolutely overwhelmed – with the kind of responses I have received from my readers and followers, with the kind of support I have received from some of my friends, with how incredibly amazing this blogging community has been to me, with the kind of brands I have been lucky enough to collaborate with and with all the wonderful life experiences it has brought with it. And along this wonderful journey, what matters the most to me are the really amazing people I have met along the way and the real connections I have made through this little corner of the internet.

So on that note, THANK YOU FOR BEING YOU AND BEING THERE TO LOVE AND SUPPORT ME & MY BLOGGING JOURNEY, it means the world to me!!!

And as we step into the New Year, here are some musings from one entrepreneur to another…

* Get out of your comfort zone and just get started on something you have always wanted to do, trust me, you will learn all the tricks of the trade along the way.

* Be inspired by others’ works but do NOT compare yourself to others, you are your own competition. So, never stop learning and never stop growing. Always aim to get better and evolve at what you do.