In
order to tell my story, I have to use the personal pronoun a bit. Thanks for understanding.
I’ve
been blogging for 6 ½ years now.
Creativity is a huge card that I play or attempt to play time and again,
for I write six blogs each week.
My
schedule is as follows:
Early
morning – do a social media promo for each blog
Before
bed – do an extended social media promo for each blog
Monday – write It’s All about People
Tuesday – write The Almost a Minute
Wednesday – write Steps and Skips
Thursday – write Morning Notes
Saturday – write Internet Church
Sunday – write A Time for Rhyme
This
is a grueling schedule, and I hold down a full-time job as a banker. Needless to say, I need to fuel my creativity;
therefore books are a huge part of my life as well. So, I work into my nightly schedule some
reading time.
Sometimes
I get stale in my writing, and even lose my way.
Carolyn
and I just returned from a 12-day vacation to London. I gave myself permission – YES – GAVE permission
to not write or post or even check my readership numbers for 12 days. I went into this time away as truly a vacation
from writing. I felt I needed to give my
creativity a break. That felt
risky. I had just recently reached a new
plateau in readership clicks and I feared I would lose that momentum and some
of that audience.
The
creative miracle happened. I eased back
into things and have found a new vibrancy to my writing. I regained my focus for Morning Notes particularly, and my poems have taken on a new and
creative life of their own. And my numbers
are back in the ranges they were before the break.
Vacations
work. THEY WORK!
Really
and truly – take your time away. In
October we will go away again for 10 days or so. I intend to follow a similar path then as
well.
You
are the boss. Take a break when you
want.
And
now, resume your normal and busy life.
P Michael Biggs
Offering
Hope
Encouragement
Inspiration
One Word
at a Time
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