How many times have you said (or thought), “I really have to get an updated post on my blog!” I know that that’s my number 1 daily priority when it comes to turning my computer on and getting to work.
In case you haven’t noticed yet, I’m a pretty methodical person. I like to have everything that I do to have a rhyme and reason. When I’ve got a reason to blog or topic to write about, I can usually get several posts written in a day. But, then there are days that I simply don’t have the time (or energy) to think creatively and write so many.
These are the days that I dread, the days that I have frozen fingers syndrome. So when this happens, what do I do to overcome the lack of creative thoughts and energy? I’m going to share a couple secrets with you that I’ve had to learn the hard way… from experience.
When I first started blogging, I had so many questions, so many ideas, so much to learn. I didn’t know where to start or how to formulate my ideas clearly much less how to navigate my way through successfully composing a WordPress posting.
I felt overwhelmed with the amount of knowledge out there. I didn’t know where to start. But here are some helpful tips for you in gathering your ideas and managing them.
When you’re feeling the creative vibe, go with it.
It’s my first secret for successfully managing your site and ideas. Get all of that pent-up energy out! Make your fingers fly as fast as your mind is moving. I love the feeling of the words moving around so quickly inside of my head that it feels like it’s going to just burst onto the computer screen. It’s exhilarating. So why stop with just one post? The creative juices are flowing, your heart is racing, and your mind is traveling at one thousand miles a minute. Don’t compromise this energy. Harness it!
Those ideas are a goldmine. Only you don’t really have to dig for anything. They’ve already surfaced and are sitting out in the open, waiting to be snatched up by those who are looking.
From my experience, when these creative juices are flowing, I can get ideas for 3, 4, or sometimes even 10 different topics that I want to further explore, write about and share with you! What I do is keep a notepad next to me; instead of trying to remember these ideas for later, I jot them down. This way, I can stay on topic without straying too far from the topic that I’m trying to focus on at the time. When I’m finished with one post, I can go on to the next without feeling that I’ve compromised my prior blog entry. Not only does this help me to focus and stay on-topic, but it gives my writing a different sense of style. The articles have a more clear, concise theme throughout.
Schedule Your Posts
It’s one of my secrets, which maybe isn’t really a secret. It’s more of a helpful tip for blogging. I use these feature to manage my posts when I know that I will be out of town or tied up for the day. Schedule your posts to let your blog run without you.
I love having a plethora of quality articles to choose from on any given day. It gives me the opportunity to take a very well deserved break once in a while from the wonderful (but sometimes exhausting) world of blogging. When I know that a scheduled “day off” is coming up, I make sure that I have a post to schedule on my site as well.
This method of harnessing my ideas and writing about them when I have the creative thought and energy enables me to control my site without it controlling me!
How do you manage your site? How do you harness your ideas? Do you also schedule your posts?