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I have realized something, and what I have realized is that I spend too much time online. I am constantly checking on my stats, looking at my blog, and dreaming up ways to make more money online. I get so wrapped up in blogging and what I’m doing that I hardly do other things offline. I don’t spend enough time with my family. I don’t work on other, more important things that I should be doing, or even other things that I enjoy doing.
And the thing is, even when I am online, I’m usually just wasting my time by browsing or staring in my stats when they haven’t changed since five minutes ago. If I do decide to spend all my life on the internet, I should at least spend it writing good quality content.
But I’ve decided not to waste my life. I don’t know about you, but I think spending time with my family and focusing on other things can be much more important. If I’m going to give you one piece of advice, I’ll tell you not let it control you - it’s easy to get wrapped up in your blogging and be so occupied by it that you don’t want to do anything else.
Of course, I’m most certainly not saying I won’t be blogging anymore. Of course I will, I love blogging! I am saying, however, that I won’t spend over half my day on the internet, and when I am online, I won’t waste my time. Instead of staring at my blog or my stats, I will use my time wisely and be writing content. I plan, in the next few weeks, for this blog to get even better because I’ll be focusing on what matters.
And what matters is that I balance what I do. I won’t be on the internet as much, hopefully, but while I am online I will write and produce more content. This is what I need to do, and I suggest that if you’re online all the time but you’re not writing enough content or doing what needs to be done, then you need to straighten up your priorities as well. It’s not easy (especially if you’re working on overcoming laziness like I am), but it’s definitely important.
Don’t waste your life blogging, and don’t waste your time.
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Blogging is addictive, especially that stat checking part. Be it a good day or bad, it has to be checked constantly. Bloggers will have a 12 Step program soon, which will lead to a whole new niche of blogs about how to stop blogging..
now thats true…. i spend hours a day just watching my stats move…. most days they dont move too LOL
A guy could get divorced for blogging too much
I’d learn that lesson, Darren Rowse is probably the only one (not really true) that can be in front of a computer not wasting time… he once say he didn’t have time to read blogs, I still have some things to learn.