Ways to Defeat Blogging Distractions

Writer’s Block 

 

When you no longer think of new ideas to write on, you’ll get distracted, you’ll stress out. Even if you write something, it feels like it is inferior. According to Wikipedia; writer’s block is a documented problem throughout history, it can make a professional writer feel like his work is unsuitable.

In this situation, best thing to do is – taking a break. And try to read other blogs and books. If you’re struggling with writer’s block, take a long leave and stop thinking about writing, it can only make things worse. Travelling might also help you to overcome this distraction, since you meet new people and change in environment also helps a bit.

And you don’t have to always depend upon books or blogs to find new ideas to write on; ideas can strike from anywhere, while walking, taking shower or while doing nothing. If you over-think, it won’t be benefited. Be blank and ideas will strike.

Social Networks

First thing I do when I get up from the bed is check facebook, often days there’ll be an inspirational status message from Neil Patel. It boosts me a bit, and then I check twitter and my emails. And later I check twice or thrice in a day. That’s it.

I used to waste lot of time on facebook, but since the day I started taking blogging seriously, I stopped it because I was procrastinating unnecessarily. The wasted time is gone forever and it never returns.

“When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection” – A.W.Tozer

Facebook and other social networks are major cause of distraction for bloggers. Of course it is useful to drive traffic to our blogs, I’m not denying it.

When I tried to figure out the possibilities for my slow blogging progress, I found out social networks are the main culprits. I could’ve written more guest posts, I could’ve invested more time on blog commenting etc.

Yes, I agree, we use facebook to chat and have fun.  But if you’re wasting more time, it is better to minimize it.

And no, you can’t ignore social media completely in this Panda, Penguin and Hummingbird algorithm era. What I’m saying is it is better to cut off these social media distractions while writing blog posts.

Television

Television is another worst enemy for bloggers; I used to watch every cricket match and other sports on TV. Now I realized the drawbacks of it; it is just waste of time. However, it is not bad to watch TV on weekends for some relaxing.

Of course watching TV is entertaining, but if you want to achieve something, you have to sacrifice something. It is a simple logic.

In case you have games on your computer, then you’re not yet serious about blogging. Computer games are another distractive time-killing thing for bloggers. Delete them.