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Day 28 of The 100 Days To Building A Great Website Guide

Sometimes after you take a break from blogging it can be hard to get back in the groove of writing posts and working on your website.  Often blogging can become a habit, but if you break that habit other activities can often overwhelm your blogging.   Here are some tips on getting back in the groove.

1) Limit the number of posts you’ll need to write

If you know that you’ll be taking a break from blogging, and you’ve had some bad experiences with being motivated after taking a vacation, try and make it easy on yourself.  Before you take your break, while you are still motivated, take the time to create a backup repository of a couple posts.  Save them as drafts that you can pull out when you need to.

What you can do is use your drafts to limit the amount of work you have to do when you come back from vacation.  You can write posts every other day and use your drafts every other day.  Or you can write posts the days that you are motivated and save your drafts for when other things pop up.

 By the time you run out of your stored up drafts, you will hopefully feel up to blogging again.  By limiting your workload right when you get back, you will keep yourself from being overwhelmed, and make sure that your readers still get posts.

2) Reward yourself when you work

Although when you are blogging you need to try and eliminate all your bad habits, like checking your stats over and over again, you need to prioritize which habits are the worst.  If you get back and don’t feel motivated about your blog, try rewarding yourself by letting discipline slip.  It is more important that you keep your interest up in your blog then you make 100% effective use of your time.

Working on your blog can be just that sometimes, work.  But checking stats is fun.  So if you are having trouble, reward yourself by giving yourself some extra time to check your stats, or to read your feeds.  You can always break those habits later once you have renewed your interest in working on your blog

3) Catch up on your comments

While you were gone, chance are comments and correspondence built up in your site.  Hopefully, if you were using good comment spam blockers, then most of these comments are real.  So take the time to catch up on the comments and e-mails that have built up.  Interacting with your readers is a great way to renew your interest in your site.  If you have built up a good community over time, or even if you have a few close blogging friends, then their enthusiasm will help spill over into your own enthusiasm