This week, I have just started coming up for air for the first time since starting my blog. I look around and I see the pile of dishes in the sink; my laundry room is in disarray; and there’s more than a fine layer of dust on my bathroom facets – let me assure you. I haven’t updated Quicken for about a week I can’t find the time to consistently make a lunch for work (both of these were my weekly challenges on my blog).
Setting up my blog has been an all-consuming, all-encompassing thing for me: I thought about it at work (day job), I worked on it at home, and I dreamed about it at night. Now I have come to a point where I have to figure out how to fit this into my life in a sustainable way and all I can think about is how tired I am.
I wonder if the blog will ever get off the ground and I wonder if people will ever be motivated to read it. Will I ever be organized enough to pull all this off? I don’t know how it will all come together.
Any fellow bloggers out there? Or even non-bloggers? What do you do when you’re at loose ends?
Keep going! You’ll figure things out! I blog mostly for self-motivation and don’t rely on readers though I have to admit I spent most of today reading other PF blogs, commenting and trying to lure readers to my blog. I’m unemployed so it’s easy to get distracted occasionally. I think it’s important to make a list of your priorities when it comes to blogging and life in general. Don’t let blogging consume you…unless you can make a career out of it. 🙂
Thanks Kasey! I appreciate that! Yeah, sometimes it’s hard to stay balanced with these things sometimes! I knew it would be a lot of work up front because I chose to self host and had no idea how wordpress worked but thngs should start to even out. I guess now I just need to find a rhythm with it.
I did start this blog for me so maybe it’s just going back to that idea is what’s important.
Cheers lady!
I feel ya! Here’s what I do.
Start a load of laundry
Do my dishes
Drink loads of coffee
Write a post
Delete post because its junk
Write another post
Realize my laundry has been sitting in the washer all day and is starting to mold
Wash again
🙂
So not helpful. I know. But just chug through it. I think you’ve got a good thing going here.
Hey Dianne
Actually super helpful! You have just validated my manic addiction to coffee; wash-grow mold-rewash laundry process; and write post over three times because I hate it program!
It’s nice to know others out there work in their own domestic mayhem.
Thanks for the vote of confidence, buddy!
Lindsey
I play Lucky Birds on Facebook :0
Seriously, I get you. I have three websites and often need to bargain with myself to work on them. I’m supposed to be migrating my Cheap Living site from html to a WordPress platform. Have I started yet? Nope.
When it comes to writing content, I do find that setting a timer can get me going. Sometimes I use the timer on the oven, sometimes a program called “Write or Die”. It’s a $10 program that uses increasingly strident sound effects to keep you on task. (If you don’t produce a certain number of words per minute, it starts to harass you). I find it useful to get me going.
Hey Alison!
Lucky Birds on Facebook? I’m going to check that out. Odds are it will turn into a crazed flash-game addiction but I swear you can never have enough of those!
Migrating your site sounds like a helluva job – I would have to battle the forces of procrastination to get through that one!
I’ll check out Write or Die – I’m always interested in things that can ‘remind me’ to stay on track with what I’m supposed to be doing. I’m pretty sure that I have undiagnosed case of ADD.
Thank for the comment support!
Lindsey
Like most things, blogging will get easier the more you do it. Don’t be discouraged!
Thanks Paul – I’ll keep at it! Like anything, it takes awhile to make things a habit. I’ll get through the blah days!
Cheers
Lindsey
I am in the same boat. I want my blog to be this big thing but I have no idea how to get it truly off the ground or really gain any followers.
I know what you mean, Christina – I think I have to keep reminding myself to be patient and that “growing” a readership takes time. I believe it would be the same with anyone.
I chose not to share that I was starting a blog with my family and friends so I am starting at ground zero for readers. A friend of mine started her blog and shared hers with her sizeable facebook friends list. She immediately surpassed me for interested and engaged readers and I started to get frustrated.
I have to remember our blogs are starting out with very different circumstances though (and it’s not a competition).
What’s your blog address? I can put it up on my “blogs I heart” page.
Cheers
Lindsey