Where This Porsche Blog Is Headed

For a while now, I’ve been thinking about the direction of Welcome Home, PORSCHE. I’ve finally settled on a vision: I want to grow this blog into a useful resource for everyone researching a Porsche purchase.

…That might be setting the bar a little high! But the truth is, I started this blog after my husband casually suggested, “If you love the Panamera so much, why not start a blog about it?” Here’s the very first post I wrote to announce the blog:

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I started out on Hatena Blog, posting whenever I felt like it. I’d decided to write every day for at least two months, but all I really wrote about was how much I loved the Panamera and my own subjective impressions. Looking back now, some of those early posts feel so immature that I’m embarrassed to read them.

At first, the blog only got around two visits a day—five on a good day! But gradually, I gained more than 100 readers, and traffic began to grow along with the readership.

That was when I started overthinking everything: “I can’t just write whatever comes to mind.” “What are readers actually looking for?” “I need to think much more carefully about what I post.” Before long, I’d thought myself into a corner and could hardly write at all. In fact, I barely updated the blog from last winter through this spring.

Do What You Want to Do

Then, around this spring, a lot began to change—things happening around me, matters involving my children, and my own state of mind, both big and small. I realized I was about to enter my tenth year in my current job, and started thinking it might be time to draw a line under this chapter. For the past ten years, I’ve tried to do my best by asking myself what I should do given my position and responsibilities. I’ve learned a great deal from that experience.

At the same time, I’ve also come to recognize my own limitations. Watching the people around me, I found myself thinking, “If this is the result after all that effort, then maybe I’m just not good at this field. I never really stood a chance.” In a way, I had to accept that I’d been beaten.

Still, I gave those ten years everything I had. Whenever I struggled at work, my husband would always tell me, “Do what you want to do. If you follow what you love and throw yourself into it, the results will come later.” So I decided that the next ten years would be my second act: ten years of doing what I want as a person, before thinking about my position or role.

As I thought about what I really wanted to do, one answer came to me instinctively: this blog.