I was in my busiest day in my life for the past few weeks. Some extra jobs from boss and blogging make me couldn’t relax much like before.

I know that it’s impossible to say I have no time to blogging, since it’s one of my hobbies and the “will be a second stream of income” activities, I’m kind of serious on it and developing it carefully.

Well, although I have carefully to develop my relationship and my concept of 5 pillars blogging, I still happen to miss some deadline and appointments (such as guest blogging at friend’s blog) due to office works that never-end!

To be frankly, this post also one of the post that missed the opportunity to join into one of the writing project by Vivien at Inspirationbit.com. Pearl invite me to enter the project few days ago. Unfortunately, I missed the deadline on the last 26th September.

It’s a huge lost for me, since I love to gather up and sharing idea together, group writing project is very interesting and I would love to write for all related writing project that available for me.

Time management is really important to schedule up everything on your daily life. To tell you frankly, I’m an Inefficient Procrastinator who sometimes wasting time in front of the LCD monitor and write nothing but staring at the blank white page.

Somehow, after reading Yaro’s post (above link), I start to make myself a bit efficient in blogging and handling my busy time at work.

I still couldn’t make a fixed schedule for my blogging time, though. But I have spotted some important points that you should take into consideration in managing your time and schedule.

If you are a full-time worker like myself, you may find a similar difficulty as below:

Difficulty one: Work

Personally, my full time job is different than the 9-5 fixed schedule. Sometimes I must work 9-9 with the same salary every month. It annoy me a lot. That’s why I try to find additional stream of income to free myself from the tight working schedule.

Anybody have their time on work. Some will like mine. and some will be the fix 9-5. So how do you handle this difficulty to set up some time for blogging?

Difficulty two: Post Frequency and Pillar Post

To post frequently and with a highest quality, we need time. Yaro from Entrepreneurship-Journey.com need 2 hours to create one Pillar post everyday.

How about you? How long you need to make a good post? Do you have any ideas to make one pillar post in a matter of minutes?

Take this question into your consideration.

Difficulty three: Communication - Relationship

Blogging is not only about Making content and publish it to the public. Building relationship is also one part that form the building of your blog-empire!

I found some decreasing in comments on my blog when I decrease my activities around the blogosphere. Commenting at other related blog is so important to us to build a road to the bigger channel of blog.

For example, if you want to make friend with some stars, you could either directly commenting at his/her blog often and regular, or if the person is not accessible directly, find his/her close friend’s blog and make friend with them. Later in the future, you could ask them to introduce you to the stars.

Commenting at a blog is kind of time consuming too. You will need to read the content before posting your comment. Never jump in to the conversation if you don’t know what is the author talking about. It’s kind of spamming instead of building relationship.

I need around 5 - 10 minutes (average 7 minutes) to completely digest a 500-700 words post and commenting sometimes will consume around 1-2 minutes.

It’s kind of headache if I need to comment at 40 related blogs a day (expert’s recommendation). In a rough calculation:

Reading: 7 minutes x 40 blogs = 280 minutes (around 4 hours)

Commenting: 2 minutes x 40 blogs = 80 minutes ( 1 h & 2m )

Total = 5 hours and 2 minutes!

I’m a slow turtle. I couldn’t do anything as fast as the expert taught me. Although I have try my best to go faster, It’s seem my turtle leg is too short to walk longer and faster! :p

Any help from you about commenting concepts?

Difficulty Four: Guest Post

Scheduling time for Guest Post is pretty important. Guest blogging act as our tool to build blog visibility. That’s why on every guest post, I must provide my best ever articles to give a good impression. If I can’t squeeze out a good post, I wouldn’t not blog. It will hurt both of the author and guest.

Making good post need another time. If you have nothing to blogging + guest blogging, consider quit from it.

Difficulty Five: Relaxation - Stress Deduction

Stresses could bring doom for your life, whether at work or at blogging. Try to stay stress-free to make thing easier.

Something that we need is the tips to keep stress-free although we are in the most busy and tough moments. No relaxation could bring us nightmare at the night. And when you wake up from the sleep, you will feel extremely terrible. If you don’t want to feel this feeling, make sure to consider a 30 minutes relaxation before sleep.

If you couldn’t do it because of blogging, consider again to quit blogging as it would hurt you mentally later in the future.

Have any stress relief method to share?

Difficulty Six: Sleep

As a human, the best duration of sleep that we need is 8 hours a day. But somehow, because of the full-packed activities, we tend to decrease our sleep time to finish the jobs. A ‘Sleepy body’ couldn’t do much quality stuffs. So, how should we arrange the time properly without sacrificing sleep time? Take this one into your consideration on making your schedule. Never sacrifice to much of your sleeping time.

Conclusion

Well, it has a very relative for everybody. What I believe is, we should make a flexible schedule to suit to our condition. Don’t bother to blog if you really have no time at all. Why would make yourself even more stress by adding extra activities?

Except, you have a planning to end your 9-5 job just like me. You will have the power to turn stress around and become your source of energy to blogging.

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