Setting Your Rate Of Work
How much work do you do on your blog, are you blogging as much as you can, have you set a rate of work or do you just go blogging mad. It is easy to get carried away with blogging and actually get no where in the process or end up blogged out.
We are all different and the circumstances that surround our blogging efforts are obviously all different. There are some that blog in their spare time, they hold down a full time job and blog when they get the chance, this can be draining as it must be hard to get on the computer and be creative when the day job has taken all of the energy. Having said that being away from the computer can be an inspiration, ideas for blog posts may enter the head all day long, so this means that although the day job has sapped some energy, there are several posts lined up just ready to be written. Also it can be clear in your mind that you need to spend sometime promoting your blog.
There are some of us that blog full time and while this is a fantastic job, sometimes it is easy to just write blog posts and forget all the other things that need doing, like promotion. There are also many distractions when you are online all day long, reading other blogs is one of them. I have in the past read an interesting blog post on another site carried on to read the comments and clicked through to another blog, then done the same on that blog and so on, before you know it a couple of hours have passed and you wonder where the day has gone.
When you are blogging in your spare time you know you only have so long to fit in all that you need to do, I believe this psychologically makes for a more efficient work rate than if you have all day everyday to blog. You will get more done in the time you have available. Where as the thought of having all day can tend to leave you with the thought that you have plenty of time and it is easy to waste some of this time.
This is why it is important to set out your daily and weekly tasks, by writing a to do list of all the things you need to get done for your blogging business, it helps to keep you on track. I will have written down what I want to get done today and I attack each one in order and tick each one as I complete them. If I have any ideas or inspiration for other things I might want to do during the day and this does happen frequently, then I will add them to the following days to do list. Sometimes by the end of the day I have a full list for the following day.
If there are any things I do not manage to get done in any given day, I will add them to the top of the following days list so they are the first things that get done. It does not always work out as black and white as this, but it does help to keep some kind of structure to my work load. Obviously the more sites you have the more there is to do and it can get harder to fit everything into a day. There will be some of your sites that will suffer a little, this is what I find anyway, I do tend to favor the sites that I like writing about best and I must admit that sometimes life would be easier if I only had one site to run, it is just as well that I love writing I suppose.
So I guess my real message hear is to try and set yourself a comfortable rate of work, try not to take on to much and flood your work load with to much, try not to spread yourself to thin. I do manage to keep on top of all my sites, but they can suffer a bit if I am trying to write a book, which is what I am doing at the moment, but that is another story. But do take into account the fact that you may want to create your own ebook, which does take up a lot of your time.
Another great reason why it is best to have a structure to your online work is because you do not want to forget your family, they need you too and if you are always glued to the computer, then they will not benefit from you as a family member.
