When after listening comes doing ...

I had been doing  a lot of listening this past couple of weeks, because that's I what feel I should do. As I mentioned on my previous post, LISTEN is my word for 2017.

And in doing so, I have realized that while listening is good, and that's what I should focus on ... there comes a time when I also have to "do" what I have been told to do ... because afterall, I don't listen just to listen ... I listen to understand ... to learn ... to grow ... to mend ... to restore ... and to develop.

And one of those "I listened, I heard, and I am going to be doing" is to lessen my postings about my family on social media ... to the point of maybe not post at all at least not on Instagram and even less and less on Facebook.  

Last year I started another Instagram account in addition to my @amauiblog. My intention was to post a lot of family photos there, because I wanted to capture the memories like what @jyscott was doing.  I even opted to make the account private so that my family will be more comfortable with me posting our photos there ....

But now I am realizing we are not on the same wavelength on this.  Not that it's bad to post family photos on Instagram.  Personally, I love it. But what I like is different from what they like. It's a matter of preference and this time I want to listen.  I remembered that a few months ago when I took a photo of Gardner and Noelle together from afar, both of them told me that that was "creepy" of me to take photos of them without them knowing and then posting them.  They also told me that it's ok to take photos, but don't post them.  I should have listened back then, but didn't. I still tried to have this "family Instagram" and yet I recently noticed that I really don't have much current photos to share because my family don't like family photos that much. Well, we had lots during Christmas, but not much on regular days ... Thinking more about it I just knew that its time to change direction on lizamaui's Instagram.

Tonight I looked back at some of my posts here on the blog and I'm thankful that when they were young they didn't mind much that I am blogging about them. In fact they liked it back then. Like when Noelle danced ballet and Gardner danced hip hop. But the season of our lives have changed ... and that is ok ... we grow, we adjust, we move forward ...

And so starting tomorrow, my lizamaui instagram account will have a different direction. I don't know exactly what ... but leaning towards motivation and encouragement; or maybe back to food photos and funny stuff, or dogs and cats :) ... who knows ... I'd play it by ear and listen I guess :)

More about LISTEN on my next post ...because, really, I had been learning a lot just by listening ...