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Issue 4 > One blogging command and seven sacred tips to beat burnout and avoid the lazysphere.

One blogging command and seven sacred tips to beat burnout and avoid the lazysphere.

Tiffany Monhollon encourages 'focus on the quality of your thoughts'.

If you're going to blog, here's one piece of advice you should follow: write great stuff. There are a zillion blogging tips out there, but this is the most important one. For a lot of reasons: It makes your ideas more relevant, and thus more popular, especially to the power bloggers. It works better than linkbaiting. It helps you form better relationships. It sets your content apart.

And as blogging advice goes, it sounds simple enough. But in reality, it's a challenge for even the best bloggers in the world. Let's be honest: creating really great content takes a lot of time, effort, thought research, and creativity. And doing all of this consistently often ushers in writing burnout, especially if blogging isn't your full time job, and actually, even if it is.

Add to this already challenging equation your workload outside of blogging and finding time for a personal life, and you can see why so many bloggers end up lumping themselves into what Steve Rubel's dubbed the 'lazysphere'.

So how can you balance the need to create relevant, insightful content but at the same time keep a consistent, frequent blogging schedule? Here are a few tips to help you avoid lazy blogging and beat writing burnout.

1 Keep track of ideas. Whenever they hit. Whether during rush hour, at work, during dinner, at a movie, or while watching a political debate.

If you're a deep thinking blogger, you'll already be making the connections between your subject matter and the things going on around you. So keep track of your ideas to aid your writing process.

You can tag things you read online at the office, email yourself reminders, or keep a handy notebook nearby. Whatever works for you, make sure you're keeping track of your ideas and making connections.

2 Plan your writing week. Take time to plan your writing each week. Exactly what you plan can differ each week.

For example, some weeks I select specific topics and specific days to post them. Other times I just commit to set aside time to write on certain days. When all else fails, I have a default plan of posting at least once a week.

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