24 Hours a Day is not Enough!!

Posted on Sep 19 in Bloggingby ApplePrint

Like the post title suggested, this is what I feel lately. I spend 9 hours a day in the office, 2 hours in Orange‘s place, that left 13 hours for me. Deduct 7 hours of sleeping time, I left 6 hours. After changing my job, I go to bed around 12am and normally wake up at 7 or 8am. I don’t even have time for my blogs! I miss out so many great posts from those blogs that I’ve subscribed to. I don’t have the time to communicate with my friends from the blogosphere like I used to.

So, in order to make me feel better (with my blogs), I wake up around 6am to do something with my blogs and community. My friend asked me “Is blogging that important for you?” Yes, it’s addictive. Or perhaps I have put in so much effort in the blogosphere which makes me feel that this is the place to express myself, to be myself. And not to forget, my plan of gaining some extra income.

I used to spend a lot of time in blogging during my previous working hour, because most of the time I’d be free and I was provided with a good Internet connection and a good performance computer. Now everything changed. My office computer sucks like hell. I can hardly do anything with the “Ice Age” computer. Not to say surf net, just by doing office job with the @#$!@#$%@#$% computer already can kill my patience and makes me feel like sleeping…

My dream is to become a problogger. But this is not as easy as it sounds. A lot of measurement and planning have to be done before turning into a problogger. I cannot quit my job because the little amount of my blog income can’t even cover my daily expenses. I want to build up my community and other necessary stuff to get loyal readers and of course be able to update fresh contents regularly. With such little time to manage my blogs, I feel that my dream is fading.

Blogging to me, is a pleasure not a burden. I’m just running out of time every time I do a blog post, reply comments, upload files, read blogs, etc…

I read a very useful article which I think every blogger (problogger-wannabe) must read. Here’s some quote from Roy, the author:

• Do not publish ads in the first there months.
• Do not write a post unless you really have something to say and write a post that would have reference value.
• Network with other bloggers in your niche.
• Work for links – get some one way links for your blog to improve the page rank.
• Offer full feed to your visitors and do not forget to add email subscription option too.

It makes me feel a lot better when I see this sentence: “Do not write a post unless you really have something to say and write a post that would have reference value. You do not need to write everyday – don’t even try it. The reference posts would develop the reader base for your blog and term you as a new serious blogger in the block.”

In fact, I have a lot of pending posts need to be done, I have many things to share, but I’m just lack of time….

Off topic: Learned a new phrase today. So there’s a sickness call Plantar Fasciitis – it’s a painful foot condition in the heel and arch area.

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6 Comments

• Alvin says:

  September 19, 2008 at 9:34 am

  Yea, i used to write a lot..maybe 2 or 3 posts in a day. It’ll increase the blog visits for sure, but it won’t bring much value to people i believe. ANd now, i’m just too busy to blog so regularly. =_=” maybe 2 days once is good enough.

  If i have something i wanna talk about, i will normally write the topic n save it as draft. ahaha

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• Deimos Tel`Arin says:

  September 19, 2008 at 3:02 pm

  Well, when I first started to blog seriously, I used to wake up quite early every day to spend time on my blog.

  That practice seriously affected my health. -_-

  I stopped doing that, have more sleep and rest nowadays.

  A better brain is able to better manage a blog.

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• remblue says:

  September 20, 2008 at 2:10 am

  AH! I know what you mean about time!! 24 Hours is not enough at all Most of the time I’m running around complaining about what to do with my time. I have so many incomplete projects that I want to finish, I’ve got a computer with less than a GB of memory open. I need to move everything to my harddrive which I haven’t time for. I’ve got friends, family, my boyfriend. There’s work and let’s not talk about sleep. I hardly get any now. And one day it’s just going to catch up to me and I’ll sleep for weeks straight. I’ve started playing an online game & I hardly have time to visit my favorite sites I used to.

  I’ve thought about starting my own blog but often wandered if I’d have anything important to say or if anyone would come visit. I’ve got a live journal but only wrote like 4 times in 5 months lol I’ve got no time.

  I suppose if there were more hours in a day I’d think that everything would still be the same. Instead of spending 8 to 9 hours at work i’d be spending 12 there O_O and so forth with everything else.

  I think what we need is just to take a day and manage everything make a schedule and just take it one day at a time

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• Adry says:

  September 21, 2008 at 12:11 am

  Hermm… thanks for the tips..

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• LeeChien says:

  September 21, 2008 at 7:23 pm

  hey, i got a tag for you..
  http://avril18.com/leechien/?p=42

  LeeChien’s last blog post..Interrogation On Me

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• tekkaus says:

  September 22, 2008 at 1:21 am

  Indeed. Don’t have enough time to do everything. Too much errands to run, too much chores to do. Ha =)

  tekkaus’s last blog post..For All The Single Mothers In The World

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