4 Reasons Why You Might Want to Take a Break from Blogging and all Social Media

July 31, 2011 by Daniel Sharkov|

Last weeks of June were probably the worst in my blogging “career”. That is why I decided to take an almost-two-week break from blogging, social media and all that kind of stuff. At first I was really skeptical about leaving that place for that much time. Thought I was quickly going to begin losing subscribers, traffic and followers. However to my surprise things didn’t turn exactly that way. In the end the seemingly bad idea actually proved to be quite a good one.

The following article is all about the pros of taking a blogging hiatus. Read below to see why you should and how to do it:

All the stress is gone…

Most of the folks, who start to blog, do it because of their love for writing. In the beginning blogging is not much more than a free time hobby for them. However at a certain point that very same hobby can prove quite a stressful experience.

Once your blog grows and begins to attract more visitors the hardships you face become tougher as well. It’s not your small personal blog anymore. You can’t write whatever you want. There are certain expectations you need to live up to.

At the beginning it doesn’t sound like too much. You take it as a challenge and spending time doing research and writing articles is actually fun and interesting. But then things start to change – what was once fun and interesting becomes rather daunting and unpleasant. Things can turn quite messy if you don’t give yourself a break at that point. It’s a far smarter decision to step away from the computer for a week than to keep writing just because there are deadlines to meet, expectations to live up to, blah, blah.

…And you stop feeling overwhelmed by all the blogging tasks

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Blogging does not begin and end with writing and posting schedules only. There are literally dozens of other small and seemingly insignificant tasks that need to get done.

Everything from promoting your content on social networks through engaging on Twitter (see best Twitter tools), leaving comments on other blogs and building links is important. The above tasks might not to take more than 10-15 minutes when done individually. However things do start to look differently when you face all of them at once.

Once that feel of overwhelm starts hitting, keeping up with all those small things becomes a huge mental battle. In that situation you are pretty much left with two options. First one is to keep going, get fed up and eventually quit. Second one is to slow things down a bit for a few days and return revitalized and ready to get crackin’ again. Which one to choose is all up to you!

You stop thinking of writing as your job…

As I mentioned earlier in the post, love for writing is often a reason for bloggers to start blogging. Although it was and it still is a hobby for me, there are those times when I really hate it. These are the times when I’m sitting for hours in front of the PC and can’t come up with a single paragraph for an article on a topic I can normally write for hours. And you know why this happens? It’s because of the I-must-get-it-done-at-all-costs attitude, the feeling that it’s the end of the world if you don’t do it.

In reality that’s not how things are. If you don’t feel like writing, just don’t! Taking a day or a week off won’t make that much of a difference. Remember it all started as a hobby? Leave it that way! You don’t have to turn it into a boring job.

Read my post “ 9 Random (but Useful) Writing Tips on Improving your Articles” for more writing tips!

And your motivation kicks in!

I began the article with saying that I took a good two-week break from blogging in the last weeks of June. Back then I didn’t felt like writing, tweeting, etc. I didn’t want to do anything blogging-related. The word blogging itself made me want to throw my PC away.

So I really went through a huge transformation after taking that break. It is really strange how all of those thoughts about quitting were floating around in my head and just two weeks later I was ready to conquer the world. I have hardly been ever more motivated than the time when I went back. Writing was once again a hobby and I loved it! Tweeting and engaging with people were once again fun.

Final Words

So if stress from all of those blogging hassles is starting to take over you, do not at al hesitate to take a break. Be it one day, a week or even two, you will most definitely win more than you are going to lose. Yes, there might be a decrease in subscribers and traffic, but when you get back at it 100% motivated, you are sure to get those numebrs back to normal and even improve them.

Post Written by Daniel Sharkov

I’m Daniel, an 18 year old student and the author of this blog. My articles cover a variety of topics, including blogging and writing tips, social media, traffic generation and more. Connect with me on Twitter, Facebookand Google+.

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