Our jobs leave its impression on our lives and blogging is no different from them. It is a complete package of various activities to be performed for being a successful blogger like, designing, writing, optimizing, moderating comments and maintenance etc.
Each of them requires plenty of time and it becomes very difficult for a blogger to manage them along with his routine life activities. My article on productive working hours better explains the productivity issue. If you are able to manage your time efficiently, you can live a stress free blogging life along with natural life.
Find Blogging Partner
Blogging partner will greatly help to live a stress free blogging life because you are going to share your work load. Find a person of same interest as you have, and enjoy stress free blogging life. If you are unable to find a partner, held a contest for writing articles for you and encourage your readers for guest post. You can share activities with him like site designing or marketing part. His social network will also help to market you blog and ultimately result in increased traffic.
Break up Your Time
You need to allocate your time between blogging and routine life activities. Depending on your blogging profile (full time or part time blogger), you need to allocate ¼ or 2/4 time to blogging and rest of time to your routine life. Avoid overlapping of each other and use your time productively.
If you spend your desired scheduled time on blog but haven’t produced any article or some other productive activity, you have wasted your time. But don’t worry; don’t use time from your routine life quota to perform some blogging related activity.
Allocate Days for Complex and Creative Tasks
You need to figure out your complex, creative and time consuming activities, make a list of them and allocate days of a week to perform those activities. Just like in my article of productive working hours, you shall have specific days of a week in which you are more productive. Perform those complex or creative activities on those specific days to maximize your output with quality, without making it burden on yourself.
For example I perform site designing activities on weekends because, it take long sittings without any disturbance. Likewise, you shall also prioritize your activities on specific days. But don’t risk your health.
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Hunt for Ideas
Make it a habit to keep a pocket size draft pad and pen with yourself all the time and hunt for ideas, topics for your content. Keep in mind, content is king and your unique content will make your blog stand out of crowed. Develop a habit of brain storming, in this way you will have new ideas for your content and have rich inventory for articles. You are saving yourself from mind block.
Produce More Articles
Content creation is a common and major problem among bloggers. Some bloggers fall ideas shortage or some don’t have enough time to write too frequently. Why not to keep yourself out of this trap by writing more and more. Allocate your preferred day, specially weekends are best for this purpose, and write how much you can. You already have rich ideas for your content by adopting idea hunting habit.
Read What is And How to Write Unique Content?
Use Time Stamp Feature
Now when you have good inventory of articles, use time stamp feature of WordPress and schedule them to make them available online. Save some posts in drafts for time when you decide to take a break.
Avoid Non-Productive Activities
Non productive activities waste your time and energy which may lead you to frustration. Avoid frequently watching site stats, checking inbox, reading approved comments etc and use that time in an activity that has some outcome. For example you can spend that time in making friends on social networking to expand your social network.
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Thank you very much for sharing this. I have subscribed to your RSS feed. Please keep up the good work.
Having a Blog Partner is very necessary if you want to build a strong and big community around your blog. He’ll help you manage your blog whenever you are busy with your own life.
Apart from it, Avoiding non productive activities is really important but many its hard to do. Like when i start browsing reddit, I forget everything else
Saket, you are raised very solid point that when we surf internet, we forget about our blog. Same is the case with me
. When i start browsing mgit.com, i forget every thing and explore funny, interesting and informative things. These are activities we need to cut down.
I’m a total blogging junkie! Now if only I could stay away from all those uneccessary tasks I’d definitely get more posts on my own blog. But for me it’s all about the people and I love to see what other bloggers like you are up to and struggling with. Am I using that as an excuse for flitting around the net? Maybe! Great to read you here though Imran. Keep blogging:)
Hey, Annabel its nice to have you here. Well it depends on goal of a blogger. Like you blog on self improvement, so you need to interact and communicate with more and more people which will give you more ideas for you content. You are doing great work and i really liked your slideshow of trip to shanghai. Keep it up.
If we are stressed its impossible to blog effectively.I totally agree with you, having partner in blogging makes blogging fun not stress and if one need want to have a stress free blogging he should be more organized while blogging.
Ruchi, almost all bloggers do agree that “No Man is Island”, so its better to have blogging partner. And your point is valid, when you have a blogging partner, you automatically live stress free life. Thanks for expressing your views.
Good tips, I think I should be able to follow! It seems basic organizational rules have to be repeated often because we forget to practice what we know.
Thanks for the reminder!
Kissie, balance Btw blogging and routine life is a must. We shall do every thing to maintain our happy life. Thanks Kissie for stopping by.
Yes, balance is key!
Great tips,.blogging is very stressful and we blogger should be allotting time for recreation and peace of mind. I also have a strategy to prevent stress while blogging,.eat a lot while blogging lol
,.cause an empty stomach is an empty brain:)
Opps, Dennis you stress free blogging strategy is risky. When you eat while blogging, it will disturb health like Sugar Level, Stomach Disorders and most dangerous Obesity. Most of bloggers gain weight very fast due to just eating habit. Take care of your health.
I like the third point. Allocation of certain days for killer posts. With this you can cut off less effective posts on other days & use that time to write killer one’s
A successful blogger do allocate days to particular activities if he is doing A-Z himself. This strategy eases life of a blogger.
Hunting for ideas of blogging is the most headache issue with me
Thanks for nice article
Mind block is a nightmare and every blogger faces problem in hunting ideas for their content. Lot of ideas and creativity is a blessing. I 100% agree with your statement. Thanks for your time Tinh.
yes its really hard to think of different strategy in blogging just also stay fit and make you mind healthy and peaceful for you to think very well and have a better outcome.
Useful tips, I should be able to follow these tips. I like first tip Really blogging partner will help to live stress free blogging life……..
Hi,
Great post, and so true but still so hard to follow the advices. My main challenge is to focus. I make to do lists all the time but find it hard to follow them. I don’t lack ideas, I simply have too many and can’t decide which where to start. And then it is all the great information I have saved for reading later but never find time to read. But I don’t give up. As long as I can do something every day I am satisfied. I know my problems and I work on them and I will succeed. The most important is to not give up.
Be yourself and be happy – never stop dreaming!
Kristin
Great tips to follow.
I also think that find Blogging Partner is an effective way to live a stress free blogging life.They can share with us when we are so busy
I like what you suggested about a blogging partner. I will try and find one to reduce my work load!!
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