A year ago, I sat down with a blank WordPress dashboard and a lot of self-doubt.
Today, I’m writing my 50th article — and this one feels different. This one is, a celebration, a pat on the shoulder.
One year of blogging. Fifty blog posts. Over 115,000 words written on the Internet, a little community quietly growing in the background, and a version of myself that I’m genuinely proud of — one that also feels more aligned with who I have always aspired to become (more than the corporate employee version, yes!).
💕If you’ve been reading, especially since the early days of MyA5Corner
— thank you💕.
You’ve watched me figure things out in real time, stumble through the technical setup of WordPress, slowly find my rhythm between working a 9-to-5 job, and learning German and creating content whenever I could find the time. Sometimes, it is writing a blog post late at night. Other times, editing a reel after work hours, or tinkering with this website and writing my e-books on weekends.
And for German learning: anytime I could have 😅.
I can admit this: It was not always glamorous. But it was always worth it.
This post is as much for you as it is for me: where we look back together on the past one year of blogging, learn something from them, and dream a little about the future.
The Numbers: A Full Year in Snapshot
All statistics cover the full first one year of blogging: 01 April 2025 – 31 March 2026 (blog officially launched on 05 April 2025).
Those numbers represent 2 meaningful things for me.
Yes, my little personal achievements as a small content creator and a part-time blogger.
I might not achieve what is usually expected after one year of blogging (like income or impressive traffic), but I am really proud of the journey anyway.
What means much more for me is: the real people.
People who share my passion for language learning, bullet journaling, and becoming a finer and happier version of themselves through personal development habits. People who read my words, and support what I am doing!
You landed on my posts — maybe the 30-Day Language Journal Challenge, maybe the Bullet Journal setup guide, maybe you are curious about what I am doing — but you decided to stay a little longer.
That means the world to me.
Also, ending the first one year of blogging with a high note on March 2026 was a big motivation boost for me into Year 2 of this Blog. I cannot believe seeing the views almost doubled this past month alone (it’s almost 2K/month from Google Analytics statistics).
It is a proven result of showing up consistently, even on the days it felt impossible. It is also a proven result of loving and believing in what you are doing, even if it takes time to get there.
✨What I Actually Built After One Year of Blogging
When I launched MyA5Corner, I had a vision: a cozy corner for language learners and bullet journal lovers who are on a journey of self-growth. Maybe you are also a multi-passionate, or want to become a polyglot (right???). Maybe you also aspire to lead a lifestyle full of freedom, potential, and creativity like I do too.
Getting started with a personal life planning and documenting system like Bullet Journal and/or picking up a new language is, for me, always a good jump start, as well as a must-have habit, for anyone with a personal development mindset.
One year of blogging in, I’m happy to say that vision held. Here’s what took shape:
A completed Goal Setting & Bullet Journal series:
The Goal Setting & Planning series — featuring Bullet Journal — is fully written down and shared, after years of being in demand for. Structured, practical, and built around the same reflection practices I use myself.
Further developed on that, I compiled a 72-page e-book covering everything from the Level 10 Life reflection all the way to Bullet Journal setup and daily journaling practice, with printable templates and free yearly updates for you.
GET THE E-BOOK FOR 50% OFF: 5-Step Effective Goal Setting & Planning ft. Bullet Journal System
💕THANK YOU MY DEAR JOURNALERS: Who purchased my E-Book and entrusted in my Bullet Journal guides! More than that, you helped me believe that blogging, creating a small online business and selling digital products are not a myth (at least not for me anymore 😁).
A free resource library:
There are 50 free blog articles available on MyA5Blog (up to the time of writing this line). All free for you to browse for inspiration and information.
In addition, there are 3 lovely freebies for bullet journal lovers, language learners, and inspired bloggers-to-be:
| ✍🏻5-Step Goal Setting & Goal Planning Framework Grab FREE e-book with ready-to-use templates → | 📚1000+ Must-Know Vobulary List (English-German-Vietnamese) Grab FREE worksheet with multiple-language translation → | 👩🏻💻10-Step Blog Setup Guide for Beginners in 2025 Grab FREE e-book with step-by-step instructions → |
Each of these freebies represent a passion of mine. Even though they are freebie, I still update them from time to time to bring the information up-to-date.
I hope they have been useful for many of our readers, oh which led me to the next highlight.
A cozy newsletter community of over 400 subscribers:
It sure still feels so cringe sending out letters to so many of you after this one year of blogging. You know, I’m actually very introverted and quiet!
And yet every single time a letter is written and sent out, it felt also so fantastic! The replies I receive via email responses or Instagram direct messages are so heartfelt and empowering!
Thank you for reaching out and staying connected with me 😁💕. Love you all!
By the way, my SundayMyA5Letter goes out to real inboxes every two week (and posted a few days later on the blog). You could join the community by subscribing here or getting any of the freebies above (and I don’t spam).
✨My best project of this Year 1 of Blogging
Out of 50 articles, How To Start A Language Learning Journal? (60 Journal Prompts A1-B2 Level) is the piece I am most proud of of 2025. Not only because it is a culmination of both passions of mine: writing and journaling on one side, language learning on the other, but also it is a personal development project for discipline, commitment, and consistency.
I finished 2 times 30-Day Language Journal Challenge upon writing this piece myself. I truly cannot recommend it enough.
Luckily, it resonates with so many of you in the community, ending up being the most read blog of the first year. The project even went viral on MyA5Gram.
This further inspires and motivates me to keep creating. More on that in the next section.
✨What Year One Taught Me (That You Can Take Away Too)
Blogging is not just content creation. It’s building a practice after one year of blogging!
The practice of showing up, of learning and getting better in public, of trusting that your passions and your words will find the people who need them.
The biggest lesson? Start, even before you feel ready.
A year ago, I launched this blog while still figuring out what is Hosting and Domain. I sent my first newsletter before I understood email marketing in full.
And every time I did the thing before I felt “ready,” I learned ten times faster than if I’d waited.
Yesterday when I looked at my very first blog articles I wrote a year ago: I did not even know how to use SEO properly. Compared to now, I have gone a long way.
And heck, I did not know I’d have needed Kit email automation workflows, when the first “You’ve Got Mail This Sunday” welcome email was sent out on May 04, 2025. Today, I have a cozy engaging community.
I wouldn’t have learned anything if I did not just start and figure it all out as I go. That’s a crucial lesson for those who aspire to self-growth.
The second lesson: Community is everything.
The readers. The subscribers. The fellow bullet journal lovers and language learners, who reached out in my DMs. You turned a personal project into something shared, something a lot more meaningful.
Please do know that: I do not take a single one of you for granted.
What I wished to have done better is to create more connections. It is something I still haven’t yet figured out, as a faceless content creator and an introverted one at that (who is finding more comfort hiding behind her words😜).
The third lesson: Do what you love, everything else will fall into place.
Writing MyA5Blog has been something I wanted to do a decade ago. This love for languages and notebooks is a big part of who I am. And the lifestyle entrepreneurship filled with freedom and creativity has been my dream since my 20s.
Yet it took until a year ago for me to be brave enough to embrace it — to turn off all the overthinking and perfectionism, to finally launch a blog (maybe it’s too late now but still I did it anyway!), and to create content to my heart’s content.
By writing MyA5Blog I could become who I want to be (and inspire others to do the same). I could write to share my enthusiams for language learning, bullet journaling and content creations, without the fear of being judged.
When you do what you love, it shines through everything you do, however big or small, glamorous or clumsy. When you do what align with who you are and who you want to become, it just makes sense and accumulates.
It will also lead the way for what comes next.
For someone who is still figuring things out step by step, this lesson is so invaluable.
✨What’s Coming in Year Two
I have never been more excited (and overwhelmed) about what’s ahead. Let me spill a little.
The Language Essential Series is my main project right now.
This Language Essential Series guides language learners through simple 5-Day Study Plans, each centred around a specific goal, such as introducing yourself confidently in a new language right in the first week of learning.
The series follows the language journal prompts to build essential skills step by step, so you write first and speak as soon as possible.
It works for any language as I demonstrate with English, German, and Vietnamese examples. I will, however, be adding more specific details tailored for German learners, as I am currently refining my own skills towards the C1 level.
Check out the lastest chapter of this series:
RELATED READ: How to Talk About Things (and People) in Any Language: A 5-Day Language Study Plan
For German learners: the German Essential E-Book is in the works.
This tailor-made e-book for German language will complete the Language Essential Series beautifully with in-depth grammar explanation, study guides and exercises — a dedicated companion for anyone serious about their German learning journey.
My big dream is to eventually help you learn English and Vietnamese too. But let’s say, one step of a time for now.
For all language learners: watch out for an Excel-based Language Vocabulary Trainer drop.
You might have seen sneak peaks of this Excel tool on my Instagram feed and/or stories. It’s time to share more about it with you, after months of developing and testing it with our own language study goals (yes, my partner is learning Vietnamese — my mother tongue, while I am learning his, German. Both with this amazing tool!)
More details shall be spilled this summer. Subscribers of the MyA5Letter will hear about all of it first.
As for my secret dream plan?
I cannot wait to pick up Chinese again and maybe — just maybe — start Italian, after I finish my German C1 exam. I am excited already thinking about what I can share of that learning journey with you.
For my Bullet Journal friends: while the blog focus is shifting more toward language content, I will always keep up monthly flipthrus and occasional stationery updates over on MyA5Gram. Your cozy journaling corner isn’t going anywhere.
And just between us — I have been thinking of sharing more personal stories here on the blog too. Life in Germany, the mid-life “crisis” of a millennial, content creation alongside a full-time job.
If you are also interested, lemme know in the comment 😁
‘Cause I would see why not. The blog feels like my perfectly safe space to spill my beans, while the Gram is my outlet for creative storytelling in short-form videos.
But let me stop this multi-passionate dreamer in me from going too wild here (for now 😅).
To everyone who has read a post, downloaded a freebie, opened a newsletter, or simply lurked quietly from their own cozy corner — thank you thank you THANK YOU.
You made this first year worth every late night and every moment of self-doubt.
Now, here’s to Year Two. I’ll be here, writing every step of the way. 💌
Warmly yours,
Suani 💕
Congrats on 1 year!! 🥳
Wow can’t believe it’s one year already, congratulations! Keep up the great content ☺️