BLOGGING BURN OUT: How to avoid it

BLOGGING BURN OUT

Yes, it is a real thing.  And, it is easy to find yourself burned out in a hurry!  Especially in the early days of writing a blog.  If you are like most of us, you will be starting a blog and working a job.  Of course, everything else in your life continues on as well.  The problem isn't usually taking on too much to do, but, making your new blog the only thing you do.

HOW TO AVOID IT

Here are a few things to help avoid becoming over whelmed when you are pouring yourself into the blog and seeing no returns for all of your hard work.  Not to mention letting everything and everybody else go on without you.

1.  Schedule your work.  Set the days and times you will work on your blog.  No, not everyday all day!  Pick specific days and times.  Apply start times and, very important, end times.  For example; maybe your best free time is on the weekend.  Maybe you decide to work on the blog on Saturday.  You have things to do in the afternoon and the evening is family time.  So, let's say you dedicate Saturday morning from 8am to 10:30am to work on your blog.  This helps you to define the time spent and apply an appropriate amount of work.  Now your schedule could be a few times per week with varying amounts of time, or, what ever fits for your schedule.

2.  Read.  Yes, read other blogs to see what they are talking about.  Read articles that apply to your niche.  This will help you to find new ideas and way of expressing those ideas which will help prevent the "block" that sometimes comes when you can't think of anything to write that doesn't sound "used".  Trust me, Not having anything to write is frustrating and frustration leads to burn out.

3.  Go off topic.  If you are starting to feel bored, the first
sign of burn out, write something that is outside of your normal topic.  Your readers will understand; as long as it doesn't become a habbit.  This will help give your creative mind a little break from coming of with fresh ideas within your niche.  And, quite often it spurs new ways of covering your normal topics.

4.  Take a break.  There is nothing wrong with taking a break from your blog.  It is a much better solution than becoming stale and boring.  That will cost you readers.

CONCLUSION

It is your blog.  You set the pace and time you will spend in it.  We all want our work to be read but if you allow yourself to burn out, nobody is going to be reading it.  So, think about how you want to approach it and give yourself time to do it right.