Sonia Simone wrote an article for CopyBlogger, a marketing company, called 7 Tips for Falling in Love with Your Blog All Over Again. Her opening quote is a couple lines from the Righteous Brothers song, You've Lost That Loving Feeling, which makes the point that after a while a blog loses its allure, its pizzazz, its limit for value. Or does it? Some blogs I have get shelved for a while I think about other things, but then inspiration will hit me and off we go.
Ms. Simone's suggestions number seven and begin with learning. She states the brain cannot absorb information all at once, but needs time for digesting news. That must be what I do.
Other suggestions for maintaining that loving feeling are:
- offer a Q&A session where you get questions you may not have thought about, and can consider
- make some connections by reading others' blogs and linking back and forth to interesting information
- present your core values (not blahblahblah sugary things, but deeply held reflections)
- use your strengths (mind tend to include music, and humor, so one of my blogs now has parodies I have written about that particular blog's topic -- it really jazzed me up and got me charged to renew the efforts!)
- "find a coach" must be something like getting a personal trainer -- locate a blogger who is doing a good job at what you want to do and ask for advice
- step away on occasion to recharge the batteries; that's what I guess I do because when I return to the blog in question I have new ideas and new perspectives....it's fun again!
Now I wonder, given permission to step away before coming at a blog again, how many blogs can one person maintain? How much information can be disseminated from one brain?!
Keep Blogging my dear Blogsters!
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