NEWSFLASH: I stopped blogging and the world didn’t end.
Who knew?!
Late last Monday, I was putting the finishing touches on my post for the next day, when suddenly the back end of my blog kicked me out.
How rude!
Why I Stopped Blogging
Turned out it had good reason. You see, unbeknown to me, my computer had a virus – a virus which wanted to infect my website host.
By the time we’d managed to rid my computer of the virus, and my blog was allowing me to visit again, most of last week had gone by.
It was Friday before I could access my blog again.
Which meant I had a bit of an “enforced holiday” from blogging last week.
What I Learned When I Stopped Blogging
And do you know what I learned from it all?
That the world didn’t stop!
Amazing!
And even more exciting (for me at least), was that my blog didn’t stop! It was still attracting lots of visitors each day – nearly as many as if I’d worked my little tushie off, adding three whole new blog posts into the mix.
Now that was a bit of a revelation for me. I’ve been pushing myself to post four times a week, thinking that if I didn’t post, nobody would visit.
It was kind of freeing to realise that this wasn’t the case.
I suppose it’s only fair enough – with a stock of over three years of blog posts to fall back on, surely some of them will be found and read and enjoyed each day, even if I’m not posting anything new.
And do you know what else?
Even though I was worried I was letting my readers down, the fact is – not one single person asked why I’d stopped blogging so suddenly!
Although the blog experts all say that posting regularly and consistently is important – if you are usually consistent, the occasional hiatus is okay.
I realised that even though this blog is my reason to get up in the morning important to me, it’s (shock, horror!) not so important to other people. Life goes on. Although you may have noticed I’d stopped blogging, you were smart enough not to panic, or think the world was ending. You probably just thought that “something suddenly came up” (as Marcia Brady once famously said).
Sometimes we are our own worst enemies, and impose such stringent rules and expectations upon ourselves – when the truth is, nobody else really notices, and if they do notice, they understand!
So that’s why I stopped blogging last week.
Did you miss me?!
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