Comments on: Blogging Break http://momgrind.com/2008/06/25/are-bloggers-allowed-to-have-a-life/ Mommy Blogger Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:42:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: I Need Your Support Today - MomGrind http://momgrind.com/2008/06/25/are-bloggers-allowed-to-have-a-life/#comment-2046 I Need Your Support Today - MomGrind Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:18:38 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/06/25/are-bloggers-allowed-to-have-a-life/#comment-2046 [...] Are Bloggers Allowed To Have A Life? Asks whether bloggers must pay a price when they take a few days - or weeks - off. [...] […] Are Bloggers Allowed To Have A Life? Asks whether bloggers must pay a price when they take a few days - or weeks - off. […]

]]> By: MomGrind http://momgrind.com/2008/06/25/are-bloggers-allowed-to-have-a-life/#comment-1967 MomGrind Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:27:38 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/06/25/are-bloggers-allowed-to-have-a-life/#comment-1967 @ Ricardo: Thank you, and good luck! @ Ricardo: Thank you, and good luck!

]]> By: Internet Safety: Did I Go Too Far? - MomGrind http://momgrind.com/2008/06/25/are-bloggers-allowed-to-have-a-life/#comment-1938 Internet Safety: Did I Go Too Far? - MomGrind Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:05:58 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/06/25/are-bloggers-allowed-to-have-a-life/#comment-1938 [...] I tell you, dear readers, about my vacation? Nope. Instead, I said I was going to be busy for a while, and blog less. Why did I do that? Because a while ago, I read [...] […] I tell you, dear readers, about my vacation? Nope. Instead, I said I was going to be busy for a while, and blog less. Why did I do that? Because a while ago, I read […]

]]> By: Ricardo Bueno http://momgrind.com/2008/06/25/are-bloggers-allowed-to-have-a-life/#comment-1927 Ricardo Bueno Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:48:20 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/06/25/are-bloggers-allowed-to-have-a-life/#comment-1927 There's nothing wrong with taking a break and/or reducing your post frequency. Sometimes it's exactly what we need to refocus our motivation and efforts in our journey of blogging. I've always thought that if you're true to yourself and your write from a place of sincerity, the rest sort of just takes care of itself (the community continues to grow and develop out of an instinctive attraction to the real "you" whether you post more or post less). I've just come back from a 1 month hiatus and I feel more focused now than before and though my blog is new (new topic and direction all-together) I'm hopeful of the future :-) Ricardo Bueno's last blog post..<a href="http://ribeezie.typepad.com/ribeezie/2008/07/we-all-make-our.html" rel="nofollow">"We All Make Our Own Sandwiches"</a> There’s nothing wrong with taking a break and/or reducing your post frequency. Sometimes it’s exactly what we need to refocus our motivation and efforts in our journey of blogging. I’ve always thought that if you’re true to yourself and your write from a place of sincerity, the rest sort of just takes care of itself (the community continues to grow and develop out of an instinctive attraction to the real “you” whether you post more or post less).
I’ve just come back from a 1 month hiatus and I feel more focused now than before and though my blog is new (new topic and direction all-together) I’m hopeful of the future :-)
Ricardo Bueno’s last blog post.."We All Make Our Own Sandwiches"

]]> By: MomGrind http://momgrind.com/2008/06/25/are-bloggers-allowed-to-have-a-life/#comment-1879 MomGrind Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:27:24 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/06/25/are-bloggers-allowed-to-have-a-life/#comment-1879 @ Vern: "Better to work for myself and try to get Aim for Awesome going as well as possible. It’s the one I enjoy the most and has the most long-term staying power." Makes sense. Good luck! @ Vern: “Better to work for myself and try to get Aim for Awesome going as well as possible. It’s the one I enjoy the most and has the most long-term staying power.” Makes sense. Good luck!

]]> By: Vern at AimforAwesome http://momgrind.com/2008/06/25/are-bloggers-allowed-to-have-a-life/#comment-1873 Vern at AimforAwesome Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:54:39 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/06/25/are-bloggers-allowed-to-have-a-life/#comment-1873 Blogging is sincerely addictive. You start with one - pretty soon you have 19. Then you scale back to 14. Drop a couple more and down to 11. Then you realize - hey, those other 8 are getting traffic too - might as well write something for them. Write something. Write some more. You're back up to 19. Then you get some more great ideas, run them by your spouse for new blogs. S/he vetoes it. You blog at the ones you have. You keep getting these amazing ideas for new blogs - the veto hammer keeps falling. You content yourself with maxing out the 19 you have and pray to the Google gods daily. In a year, 18 months you realize - wow, there's only 3 blogs that are really working. Forget the rest. You work on those three for a while. Eventually you realize there's really only 1 that works and that you have time for if you want to make it the best. You re-dedicate yourself to that one. The eggs are in one basket, but - if you want to make it the best - do you have time for any more blogs? I'm down to one focus and 5 blogs I write occasionally for. I was picked to write for b5media - and I decided I just don't have TIME. Better to work for myself and try to get Aim for Awesome going as well as possible. It's the one I enjoy the most and has the most long-term staying power. I just found Momgrind - and though I'm not a mom you have articles that are interesting to me too. Go figure! I'll grab your RSS and browse your categories in a few minutes. Excellent blog - glad I found you. - Vern Blogging is sincerely addictive. You start with one - pretty soon you have 19. Then you scale back to 14. Drop a couple more and down to 11. Then you realize - hey, those other 8 are getting traffic too - might as well write something for them. Write something. Write some more. You’re back up to 19. Then you get some more great ideas, run them by your spouse for new blogs. S/he vetoes it. You blog at the ones you have. You keep getting these amazing ideas for new blogs - the veto hammer keeps falling.

You content yourself with maxing out the 19 you have and pray to the Google gods daily.

In a year, 18 months you realize - wow, there’s only 3 blogs that are really working. Forget the rest. You work on those three for a while. Eventually you realize there’s really only 1 that works and that you have time for if you want to make it the best. You re-dedicate yourself to that one. The eggs are in one basket, but - if you want to make it the best - do you have time for any more blogs? I’m down to one focus and 5 blogs I write occasionally for. I was picked to write for b5media - and I decided I just don’t have TIME. Better to work for myself and try to get Aim for Awesome going as well as possible. It’s the one I enjoy the most and has the most long-term staying power.

I just found Momgrind - and though I’m not a mom you have articles that are interesting to me too. Go figure! I’ll grab your RSS and browse your categories in a few minutes. Excellent blog - glad I found you. - Vern

]]> By: MomGrind http://momgrind.com/2008/06/25/are-bloggers-allowed-to-have-a-life/#comment-1815 MomGrind Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:30:42 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/06/25/are-bloggers-allowed-to-have-a-life/#comment-1815 @ Avital: I visited your blog and like it very much. Good luck with everything! @ hank: Thank you for the support! :) It's good to know that in summer the trend in general is to be more offline. @ Avital: I visited your blog and like it very much. Good luck with everything!

@ hank: Thank you for the support! :) It’s good to know that in summer the trend in general is to be more offline.

]]> By: hank http://momgrind.com/2008/06/25/are-bloggers-allowed-to-have-a-life/#comment-1811 hank Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:22:01 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/06/25/are-bloggers-allowed-to-have-a-life/#comment-1811 Yea, especially during the summer it's probably a decent reason to skip town. A lot of people do. People just stay off the web in general during the summer. They get outside a bit more; it honestly is more of a hassle (still small) to UNsubscribe from a blog than it is to just keep it in your reader! People read because they like what you write; taking a break just creates anticipation... ;) hank's last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MyInvestingBlog/~3/326470412/" rel="nofollow">A Month of Quintessential Savings Tips!</a> Yea, especially during the summer it’s probably a decent reason to skip town. A lot of people do. People just stay off the web in general during the summer. They get outside a bit more; it honestly is more of a hassle (still small) to UNsubscribe from a blog than it is to just keep it in your reader! People read because they like what you write; taking a break just creates anticipation… ;)
hank’s last blog post..A Month of Quintessential Savings Tips!

]]> By: Avital http://momgrind.com/2008/06/25/are-bloggers-allowed-to-have-a-life/#comment-1775 Avital Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:08:18 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/06/25/are-bloggers-allowed-to-have-a-life/#comment-1775 Hi, I have stumbled upon your blog (not by using Stumble Upon.... but by a link from another blog). I read your profile and saw your were once a lawyer and now a blogger and involved with a social network for parents. I am going through the same process myself. Half a year ago (more or less) I was living in Israel, working as a lawyer and not having any kind of personal life, whatsoever. Somehow I have managed to get married and less than three months afterward I found myself on a plane to Ireland with a one-way ticket. My husband had got a job offer and we relocated. Leaving the office was very hard for me. I didn't even take sick leave, as I always thought everything would fall apart, and there I was, leaving the office permanently. My license isn't valid in Ireland and in order to validate it I have to study Gaelic, among other prerequisites, so I gave up on it. Started a blog on creativity and vowed to have a life. Hi,

I have stumbled upon your blog (not by using Stumble Upon…. but by a link from another blog). I read your profile and saw your were once a lawyer and now a blogger and involved with a social network for parents.

I am going through the same process myself. Half a year ago (more or less) I was living in Israel, working as a lawyer and not having any kind of personal life, whatsoever. Somehow I have managed to get married and less than three months afterward I found myself on a plane to Ireland with a one-way ticket.

My husband had got a job offer and we relocated. Leaving the office was very hard for me. I didn’t even take sick leave, as I always thought everything would fall apart, and there I was, leaving the office permanently. My license isn’t valid in Ireland and in order to validate it I have to study Gaelic, among other prerequisites, so I gave up on it. Started a blog on creativity and vowed to have a life.

]]> By: MomGrind http://momgrind.com/2008/06/25/are-bloggers-allowed-to-have-a-life/#comment-1712 MomGrind Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:20:24 +0000 http://momgrind.com/2008/06/25/are-bloggers-allowed-to-have-a-life/#comment-1712 Thanks Clay. I'm a Gemini but I must confess, I don't really believe in these things. :) Thanks Clay.

I’m a Gemini but I must confess, I don’t really believe in these things. :)

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