So for a while now I keep feeling super guilty for not sticking to my blogging goal. When the year started I was determined to schedule at least two blog posts a month, now it’s nearly the end of March and I’ve only written four blog posts this year. The more I went on social media and read other blogs, the more sad I started to feel about it. Don’t get me wrong I love seeing my friends produce amazing content on both social media and their blogs but I couldn’t help beating my self up about the fact I wasn’t doing the same.
Finding the ‘right balance’ is something I’ve been thinking about for quite sometime now and I actually had a half written blog post about this a year ago. I personally find getting the right balance really difficult and often feel bad about myself if I’m not achieving loads of great things in my spare time.
I work full time as a marketing executive and I absolutely love my job, but sometimes it gets very hectic and stressful. As a result I find myself not having much free time in the week and when I do all I wanna do is watch TV and sleep, but that’s okay because I work damn hard. However, it then gets to around a month and I haven’t even thought about my blog and then I start to beat myself up about it. It’s not that I don’t like updating my blog and writing blog post, in fact I love having my little blog, but it’s not having the time to do it that upsets me.
Last night I was laying in bed reading some blog posts written by handful of my close friends when I started to realise, when I write a blog post it doesn’t have to be a thousand word easy, it can just be a couple of short and sweet paragraphs. Because the way I look at it is, at the end of the day I’m in charge of my blog and I decide what I wanna write about and post and if I want to just write a couple of lines about something I care about then that’s what I’ll do.
This post is a bit of a waffley one, but it’s something I’ve wanted to write about for a while, just haven’t known how to. If anyone else struggles with this problem of work/personal life balance and finding the time to keep up a hobby, please let me know in the comments below, and if you have any tips on how to manage the struggle that’ll be even better!
As always, thank you for reading!
Megan Griffin 
I feel the same way when I don’t post a blog but like you I have learnt I just need to write whatever that may be.
This is such an important lesson – you don’t have to do it ALL. Sometimes a few words or pictures can say as much as a 1000 word post. Guess we all just need to learn not to be so hard on ourselves! xxx
Yes definitely!! Glad I’m not the only one that feels this way xxx
I’ve been wanting to write about a similar topic recently and you’ve just made me open up my blog and just write what I want to write. I often see these posts about balancing life in a more detailed way, they’ve given tips and recommended ways to balance work and a blog. It was nice to just read it in a diary format instead of this structured blog post that took so much planning. I’m going to write a post on my feelings and an update on my life now with out comparing it to other peoples work xxx
Yeah I just wanted to get my thoughts out there! I’ll definitely read your blog post when you’ve written it! 🙂