About the Future Direction of the Blog

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the direction of this “Welcome Home, PORSCHE” blog. I’ve finally settled on a vision, and now I want to nurture this blog into a helpful resource for everyone considering purchasing a Porsche.

…I might be setting my sights a bit high, but actually, the reason I started this blog was because my husband casually said, “If you love the Panamera that much, why not try blogging about it?” By the way, here’s the very first post I wrote when I launched the blog:

→[Reference] Launching the Porsche Panamera Blog! – Welcome Home, PORSCHE

At first, I started on Hatena Blog and updated casually. I decided to post every day for at least two months, but honestly, I was only writing about how much I loved the Panamera from my own perspective, so looking back now, the content feels embarrassingly immature.

Because of that, the blog initially got about “2” visits a day, maybe “5” on a good day (laughs), but gradually the number of readers surpassed 100, and the blog’s traffic started to increase.

However, once that happened, I began to think more seriously: “I can’t just write casually,” “What exactly are readers looking for?” “I need to think more carefully about the content.” I overthought things so much that I ended up unable to write anything, and from last winter through this spring, I hardly updated the blog at all.

Do What You Want to Do

Then, around this spring, with changes in my surroundings, my children, my mindset, and various other factors big and small… I realized that my current job is approaching its 10th year, so I thought it might be time to draw a line under it. For the past 10 years, I’ve worked from the perspective of “my position and role first,” thinking about what I should do in that role and trying my best. I gained a lot from that experience.

At the same time, I also learned my limits and, looking at those around me, I felt “Even with all this effort, this is the result—I guess I’m just not good at this field. I was completely outmatched.” In a way, I accepted defeat.

Well, having done my best for 10 years, whenever I struggled with work, my husband always told me, “Do what you want to do. If you do what you love and get absorbed in it, the results will follow.” So, for the next 10 years, I decided this would be my second chapter: “Before roles and positions, I’ll spend 10 years doing what I want as an individual.”

At that moment, when I thought about what I really want to do, my intuition said, “This is it!”—and that’s this blog.