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This week’s blogging roundup, featuring posts on the blogs and the mini-blogs:

• Katy’s 77494 zip code hottest in the country || Redes Houston
• Starbucks College Achievement Plan || Redes Houston

This week’s blogging roundup, featuring posts on the blogs and the mini-blogs:

• Houston adds 35,202 residents in 2013 || Redes Houston
• Tips for a great profile pic || Going Social Houston
• Food and nature, photos by Samsung GalaxyS5 || Hispanic Houston

This week’s blogging roundup, featuring posts on the blogs and the mini-blogs:

• An unintended hiatus || Sandra Says — “…One of the things I’ve seen is a massive decrease in a blogging schedule I was finally happy with, and which was getting me the results I wanted. I’ve had to decline on speaking engagements and opt not to pursue projects and opportunities I had planned for this year…”
• How and why librarians weed stacks || Library PR
• Learn about Student Loan Forgiveness || Not Just for Teachers

Last year I started the process of taking a step back from many of my extracurricular activities — I stepped down from board positions and away from volunteer committees, I stopped doing pro-bono work, I (mostly) stopped attending professional lunches and dinners, and I paused some of my projects. Basically, I started to reduce the activities that were cluttering my schedule and making me lose focus. The intent was that it would free up space and attention for the things that were truly important.

It hasn’t quite worked out that way.

I did free up a lot of time, but somehow it’s been taken up with unscheduled, unexpected and (quite frankly) unwanted items. Family situations that cannot be avoided (and for which I’m very glad I had the time to be away); lots and lots and lots of overwork that’s threatening to leave me burned out of every iota of creative energy; and many other things that just weren’t planned.

Halfway through the year I find myself baffled by my complete deviation from this year’s plan. Did the new distractions pop up because the old ones were eliminated? or would they have popped up anyways?

One of the things I’ve seen is a massive decrease in a blogging schedule I was finally happy with, and which was getting me the results I wanted. I’ve had to decline on speaking engagements and opt not to pursue projects and opportunities I had planned for this year.

I’m hoping that some of this is going to start correcting soon. And for that to happen I have to stop saying “I’m too busy,” and start saying “I choose to do this.”

And, I think I need to start seeing people in real life again.

How’s your mid-year review going?

This week’s blogging roundup, featuring posts on the blogs and the mini-blogs:

• Houston’s unemployment rate was 4.6% in April || Redes Houston
• A new way of looking at public library engagement in America || Library PR
• Upscale Latinos: A Renewed Outlook For High-End Marketers || Redes Houston
• 2014 Social Media Image Size Cheat Sheet || Going Social Houston

This week’s blogging roundup, featuring posts on the blogs and the mini-blogs:

• Texas’ most popular baby names in 2013 || Hispanic Houston
• UH Downtown receives $15,000 NEA grant || Library PR
• Traffic is Houston’s No. 1 problem || Redes Houston

This week’s blogging roundup, featuring posts on the blogs and the mini-blogs:

• How much of US pre-tax income goes to richest 1%? || Redes Houston

This week’s blogging roundup, featuring posts on the blogs and the mini-blogs:

• Houston school rankings || Not Just for Teachers
• 30% don’t know what you offer || Library PR
• HISD-TV to close?|| Not Just for Teachers
• WORKSHOP: Hispanic and Asian Millennials: Best Practices to Engage Houston’s Fastest Growing Demographics || Redes Houston
• Midtown Houston — a new sign || Hispanic Houston
• A Bluebonnet Road Trip (photos) || Hispanic Houston
• Pearland Library to provide mammograms || Around Pearland
• The view at Bay Area Park (photos) || Hispanic Houston
• Luby’s is still a fresh-food experience || Hispanic Houston

This week’s blogging roundup, featuring posts on the blogs and the mini-blogs:

• 44% of adults have used a library website || Library PR
• UH law school needs applicants || Not Just for Teachers
• Austin, Fort Worth better than Houston for jobs for new graduates? || Redes Houston
• It’s time to check out “From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series” || Hispanic Houston

This week’s blogging roundup, featuring posts on the blogs and the mini-blogs:

• Scenes from Easter (photos) || Hispanic Houston
• Houston City Hall Farmers Market (photos) || Hispanic Houston
• EVENT: El día de los niños / El día de los libros; April 24 & 25, 2014 || Hispanic Houston
• La Santa Cecilia to perform at Houston International Festival || Hispanic Houston