Yohoo! Looks like I’m back for real! lol.
Shortly after the May 21 fake doomsday blog entry that I made, I gave a hint that I should be giving more effort in my blogging career or whatever it is you may want to call it. In fact a month before that, I wrote a post where I said that I was going to revive this blog.
If you’re a loyal reader of this blog, you’ll spot that the reason for my lack of activity (only 16 posts in the last 6 months) in blogging is work. Since June last year, I got employed and late last year I started taking consulting clients (regarding SEO and online business). That has pretty much made me indisposed up until early May.
But Where Have I Been?
If I got free since early May, why haven’t I been posting so much? The honest answer is:
“I got tired of blogging”.
Fact of the matter is when I started getting lots of free time, I replaced that with a).playing b). hanging out with friends and c).spending more time w/ family. I did so many things that teenagers usually normally do and it’s fun. Obviously it had some effects on the stats and profitability but who cares? I wanna enjoy life eh! Also aside from that I still have my normal day job w/c at times is labor-intensive.
Anyway I couldn’t believe I would say these thing considering that I have been blogging since my early college days and have been workaholic since then. But I guess I got hit with the infamous line ‘you might be missing a lot of things that you should be enjoying at your age’.
Plans
Strange enough, I should’ve posted this type of post a long ago. The reason and logic behind opting not to post this earlier is that I want to write content first on a continuous basis before claiming that I’m back with blogging. Prior to this entry, you can look at my archives and see that I’m back with my normal posting frequency. I don’t want to do the annoying mistake of writing a comeback post and then not post again until a month after which is pretty much what I’ve done in the past few months.
As far as plans, I don’t really have new plans yet aside from just regaining back my momentum in blogging. I would also like to recoup the lost traffic (lots) that I got for not posting and being active that much. From there, I’ll just see where it goes.
I’m also planning out on releasing some free materials that I’ll give out to my newsletter subscribers. Like with the blog, I haven’t been sending that much to my list that they might have gotten cold already. So its also a top priority for me to get my newsletter going as well.
Those are the things new to me, how about you?
A lot of people get so caught up in blogging, social networking (facebook, twitter, etc.), you name it they sometimes forget about the simple and important things in life. Everyone should take a step back from all this online stuff sometimes and simply enjoy life. It is too short, and goes by too fast.
yeah definitely. but I’d like to add that I think people within my age range (15-30 yrs old) should heed this advice more. Not so much for people who are old and have families already since they probably don’t spend their whole time anyway but I just think teens in general should take some time to enjoy doing other things that they are probably doing before prior to blogging or making money online. In my experience, I just got bored with blogging and eventually started craving for those old things that I used to do consistently.
It;s great that you are back and if you need any help, feel free to contact me too, and finally… hope you enjoy blogging but don’t forget to get some fun when you really need too, I mean that’s what youngster should be doing…
Great you ar back Melvin. It’s a good thing to spend time with family and hang out with friends. If you treat blogging a a real business,you will do all these things together.
Hi,
Just dropped by to say you have a wonderful welcome back post! I agree with blog vacation, where you spend most of your time with your family. Anyway, now that your back, we hope from hearing more post from you. 🙂
yep, noted! Thanks man!