Blogging Motivation and Getting Stuff Done!

Blogging Motivation (Or Lack Of) and Getting Stuff Done!

I’m writing this article on blogging motivation today, mostly because I haven’t had much recently when it comes to my blogging and general online presence.

I’m actually pretty relaxed about my lack of blogging motivation. It’s for a good reason.

I have written many times over about the managing yourself – keeping stress in check, managing your physical resource and recovering sufficiently. It’s a topic I am very familiar with – in my Stockport personal training business I see many clients who have jobs or life stresses that physically and mentally drain them and I help them with coping strategies to help them deal with life more effectively.

So why have I lacked motivation to post much online?

I certainly haven’t lacked enthusiasm. I remain as committed to my website as ever. It’s my online home and I get enough good feedback from readers to remind me I am helping plenty of people. It’s less a case of lacking motivation and more a case of directing my effort and attention where it is needed most.

Business has been good. My personal training business has grown and my clients continue to enjoy excellent results. I am ever-evolving with my approach to personal training and improving as I do.

The personal training business has been my baby for 4 years (and is still my wage-earner), but I have set it up in such a way that I have freed up time to focus on a couple of other projects that I will be launching this year (more on these in the coming weeks).

Personal training and the personal training business still takes up around 70 hours of my week. Add to this my own training, (5 hours per week), working on other my projects (10 hours per week) and then family time (Saturday afternoon onwards and all of Sunday) and it’s easy to see where my week goes. We also have an impending baby arrival (Sept 19th 2014 to be precise) and a recent house move (we still have boxes we haven’t unpacked) which add to the drama that is our busy lives!

I haven’t had a holiday (vacation to American readers!) since September last year and it was starting to show. I was flagging – working long hours was becoming a drag and I was tired every day. I had to change something, so I looked at the week and cut the fat from it.

Employing the Floyd Mayweather mantra ‘if it don’t make dollars, it don’t make sense’, I started to cut things from my week that weren’t pressing. I used a version of the Eisenhower Box to get my life in order and it’s getting there.

I have a funnel of draft blog posts that are at various stages of completion that will be drip-fed onto the site at a rate of 1-2 per week, meaning there will be plenty of fresh content. I will also be refreshing one or two posts and sharing much more of what I have been up to recently as and when the time is right.

For now though, don’t fear about my lack of blogging motivation. It’s not you, it’s me! But after 340 posts since September 2012, plus a baby, a house move and a couple of new businesses I needed to take a break for my health, my sanity and my general wellbeing! I was following my own advice.

I’ve seen friends and family, I have taken up fishing again and have kept my training up. It has put me in a better mental state where I am less fatigued and able to focus and concentrate on doing what I need to do.

I have been managing my physical resource.

If you are suffering from a lack of motivation, why not look to see what parts of your routine you can get rid of? Less to do means more time to focus on the important things in life, like yourself!