I decided that I am only going to update this blog once a week, on Sundays. Occasionally, I will drop by mid-week with some random goodies, but for now, I want to focus on doing one quality post every week.
I figured I would start out with the point of this post, before I launch into the long story. So, if you want to stop here, you’ve already got the important information.
I have struggled with this blog for the longest time. I had another blog, which was a political blog, and I made some okay money through advertising on it. Well, paid links, actually. I hate the look of advertisements. But it always bothered me that I couldn’t seem to get this blog going enough to sell as many links on it.
The reason is that I am never consistent. The reason I am never consistent is that I always want to do more than my life allows for. (For those who don’t know, I home school my three sons, one of which has ADHD and a mood disorder.) So, I end up setting goals I can never reach, then I just do nothing, which is foolish, I know. I should at least do something. Anything is better than nothing. But, for some reason, I always get easily discouraged by this blog because I want so badly to have the time to make it the way I want it. But, the fact is that I don’t.
I keep thinking that, now that my oldest is a teen, I will have a little more time. Ooh, boy, was I wrong! Come to find out, teens require more work, more time, and more attention – and loads more patience – than any other age past toddlerhood.
This business with the blog has been on my mind a lot lately. I have done a lot of thinking about the blog and I keep trying to do more with it – like all the Easter posts I promised – but life keeps getting in the way.
But, the thing is, a lot of my favorite blogs only update once a week. There are blogs that get tons of readers and are great blogs, yet they only update once a week.
The question I had to ask myself was: do I want to have one good, quality post, that readers can reliably expect once a week, or do I want to keep on trying to do more posts, only to end up doing nothing?
The answer was pretty obvious, but it is hard for me to let go of things sometimes.
Then, I read a post on Soap Queen the other day with tips on social media from a talk Anne-Marie gave at a social media conference. She outlines the six rules for social media engagement and one of them is routine.
That sealed it. I knew what I needed to do. So, I sat down and outlined the minimum commitments I would make to all of my social media platforms/blogs, and I decided that I would focus on posting here once a week, so I can give you guys a good quality post that is worth reading and I will be satisfied with what I am doing here. You know, instead of saying I am going to blog and then never doing it, and feeling like this blog is a total failure.
Unfortunately, this is my post for this week. My six year old was very sick all week, so I just wasn’t able to put anything together.
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