Comments on: Blogging Break

By: I Need Your Support Today - MomGrind

I Need Your Support Today - MomGrind — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:18:38 +0000

[...] 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

MomGrind — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:27:38 +0000

@ Ricardo: Thank you, and good luck!

By: Internet Safety: Did I Go Too Far? - MomGrind

Internet Safety: Did I Go Too Far? - MomGrind — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:05:58 +0000

[...] 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

Ricardo Bueno — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:48:20 +0000

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

MomGrind — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:27:24 +0000

@ 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

Vern at AimforAwesome — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:54:39 +0000

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

MomGrind — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:30:42 +0000

@ 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.