Earning Money

As most of you can probably see, I took a few days and just did not blog. There are a few reasons for that. The first is that school started again and I was doing a few things like meeting up with some old friends and getting together with an important person that I had wanted to see for a while. So, I just took a break. However, there was more to me taking this break than me just not blogging for a few days. The one thing that you’ll find as you blog more and more is that your blogs are constantly on your mind. I am always thinking of new blog posts and new things to write about.

There is the common misconception that if you don’t blog every single day on the day without a delay and with no failures (run on sentence, I know) you won’t succeed. I dare say that’s a lie. You can go a day or two or even three days without blogging and your readers will still be your readers. They’re not going to ditch you just because you took a break. I can tell you from my own personal experience that I don’t remove someone’s site from my RSS feed until they haven’t updated in like two or three weeks. Three days? That’s no big deal.

That brings me to the point of this blog post. Taking a break can sometimes provide you that necessary time to recharge your brain. We are writers when we blog. Constantly updating things and making more blog posts and writing and writing and writing can drain us considerably. Add the fact that, chances are, you’re either a student or you work a full time job and you’re just plain tired. But still, we blog as much as we can, but from time to time, we just need a break. And that’s what I suggest to you. Take a break because if you do, you’re giving your brain time to recharge and when you do come back with that recharged brain, you can suddenly burst out with a huge energy and get a lot of work done.

For instance, let’s assume that you run three blogs regularly like I do and that you also do content writing like I do and other occassional things. That’s a lot of blog posts to write. That’s a lot of content to write. After a while, you go blank. I suggest you take a day, step away from the computer, sit down and just read a book or play a video game. Me? I played guitar for hours on end with my friends; I learned entire songs and truth be told, allowed my writing side to recover while my more creative, musical side took control. Three days later, I have the energy and the concentration to get blog post after blog post done.

But, here’s another question: do I have to take three days off? No. Take three hours off. Or even just take an hour off. If you are constantly blogging all day long and you stop for a little while and do something that is not connected to that part of your brain, it’ll give you time to recover. Hell, it might even give you time to find more blog posts without even realizing it. I wrote a blog post once about earning on the web and comparing it to guitar. I took something that I liked, that I took a break from working to enjoy for an hour or two, and suddenly had a blog post idea. A few hours and I was able to find something to write about.

The key to taking a break is disconnecting yourself, for some time, from your work. People do it all the time. That’s one of the big reasons companies offer vacations. If you don’t give your body time to recover, you’re going to go crazy. So, I suggest taking a break, whether it is a few hours or a few days. There is nothing wrong with just saying, “my work can wait, I need to relax.” Will you lose a little traffic? Sure. My Alexa dropped 3K. But you know what? It’ll go back up once again once people see that I am not really leaving. I recommend taking a little bit of a break. The break will help you to recover and work more effectively. Try it. You’ll like it.

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