To keep things in perspective: ” I remembered why I started blogging in the first place. It wasn’t for numbers. It wasn’t for business or money. It was all for myself and for my everyday moments of happiness, sunshine and gratitude; it was for sunrises and sunsets; for love and family. It was for friends and joy. “
I’ve been very busy for the past three weeks. I changed the theme of my blog, I read and collected blogging resources and I created tens of folders on my computer. I’ve also learned about working with pictures and Picmonkey. I created a Facebook page and made friends in some blogging groups. Creating a Facebook page, exchanging “likes” with other pages and interacting with Facebook groups of fellow bloggers is time-consuming. It is almost addicting.
So instead of writing posts, I was doing everything else. I’ve felt like I was always behind (and I really was behind), and always writing my posts in the last minute right before publishing them, having no time to read them over and eventually revise and edit them.
I knew I had to be more organized. I wasted too much time on Facebook. I wanted to create a schedule and I hoped to have, let’s…
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Thank you so much for sharing, Seeker. I feel honored and humbled. You just made my day! 🙂
Actually, you have opened my mind to what it’s all that “jazz” about blogging. I starting to have a “lukewarm” feeling about it due to “pressure” I placed on my part.
Writing can be addictive especially when we use social media.
And I totally agree that it stems from us.
Cheers. Perpetua.
SO very true – a step back for perspective sometimes is the best remedy!
It’s kind of a dance that I stepped on my own toes. I am killing time at the Apple store to have a year old iPad check. It died.
Sincere commiserations… hope there is a “cheap” solution or better yet “still under warranty”! 🙂
If it’s, one less thing to think about.
To each his own. No two people have similar wants. We all need to keep our own pace. Like I always say: Blogging has no deadlines.
Your own, it is.
Rest when you can. You’re correct. We all need the break sometimes.