20 Minute Blog a Day - Oh Man I Dropped the Ball

Well I fell off a bit on my blog a day venture but here I am - climbing up on the horse again..

I don't have much of a topic planned for this one so I guess I'm winging it. I have been having a lot of outside stressors going on in my life lately and feel I'm slacking a bit on the content of my blog.. I do a lot of project work but I haven't put out a good article in a while.. in fact I have 3 different posts going right now but haven't finished a single one.

I watched a good d.tube video from Hive account@axios about keeping up with Steemit when you have a lot going on - it can get difficult to juggle life and keep producing quality content. I feel like I used to put out more researched posts and I wanted to get back into that - so I've been compiling my prison series as well as one on GMOs and Monsanto but these are huge topics that require looking at multiple sources and learning a lot of new things. I have to teach myself and then write a paper on it..

I'm not complaining!

This is the stuff of my dreams LOL - I love digging deep and piecing together articles but sometimes I just want to share immediately and get some feedback! However in order to do the topics, myself and all you justice I need to dedicate a decent amount of time.. where do I get these hours!? There seems to be a time drought in my life..

A loose schedule saves me time

When I create myself tasks for each day of the week with my posts and projects it helps me to maximize my time on Steemit - it also gives me some motivation to stick with it! However then I had commitments every day and less time for my big topic posts so I keep 4 scheduled days (Mon, Tues, Thurs and Sat) and leave the other days to do whatever I choose.

I post and write when I can!

If I have the free time and a topic in mind I go for it! Even if that means pushing out 2 posts one night and not posting again for 2 days. If I miss a day I don't worry about it - if I have 4 posts in a day well great!

Same thing goes for writing - I have multiple docs going at one time in which I build posts a segment at a time. I usually add in most of the HTML coding on these docs while I'm writing to save time when it comes to posting it on here. If I have a quite 20 minutes I jump on my phone or laptop and add some bits in. Sometimes I just add in notes on a source or a quote or stat. Writing when I can throughout the day without worrying about when I will post it has helped me through many a slump!

I hope some of these tricks may help you if you're feeling overwhelmed or stressed whether in real life or here on Steemit! With so much going on we all should practice honing our time management skills :-) I don't know how this turned into an information post - I thought I would freewrite something more personal LOL but hey, my 20 minutes are up and I'm back on the 20Min a Day wagon!