Comments on: The power of leverage: How do we kill the blog monster? http://facibus.com/onblogging/2007/06/22/the-power-of-leverage-how-do-we-kill-the-blog-monster/ Andrew looks at Blogging and Blog Life Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:59:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Why we blog: Maslow’s needs as motivators at Facibus On Blogging http://facibus.com/onblogging/2007/06/22/the-power-of-leverage-how-do-we-kill-the-blog-monster/#comment-1522 Why we blog: Maslow’s needs as motivators at Facibus On Blogging Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:56:21 +0000 http://facibus.com/onblogging/2007/06/22/the-power-of-leverage-how-do-we-kill-the-blog-monster/#comment-1522 [...] once or twice is easy. Blogging for six weeks is fun. After that, you’re facing the monster and it becomes a duty. And the duty may be responsible for the tens of millions of inactive [...] […] once or twice is easy. Blogging for six weeks is fun. After that, you’re facing the monster and it becomes a duty. And the duty may be responsible for the tens of millions of inactive […]

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]]> By: AndrewBoyd http://facibus.com/onblogging/2007/06/22/the-power-of-leverage-how-do-we-kill-the-blog-monster/#comment-275 AndrewBoyd Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:01:00 +0000 http://facibus.com/onblogging/2007/06/22/the-power-of-leverage-how-do-we-kill-the-blog-monster/#comment-275 Hi Jeri, Thank you for your comment. I feel your pain. I think that the issue is an important one and I am glad that Wendy shared it with us, because when she works it out she can tell us so that we can all learn from the experience :) This is not to make light of the very real pain that she (and you, and I) are feeling around this at the moment. An anecdote: I was asked yesterday by our consultancy office manager what I did with all the non-billable time that I put onto my timesheet each week. This is regularly 20 hours or more on top of the 40 or so billable hours that I work. I gave her a list - she seemed impressed (or perhaps appalled, not sure which) Add blogging to that, and yes, there are not enough hours in the day. I am grateful for your honest response, please keep them coming. It is not whining when you put up your hand and ask for help. Everyone has the right to do that. PS: Happy Anniversary :) Cheers, Andrew Hi Jeri,

Thank you for your comment.

I feel your pain. I think that the issue is an important one and I am glad that Wendy shared it with us, because when she works it out she can tell us so that we can all learn from the experience :) This is not to make light of the very real pain that she (and you, and I) are feeling around this at the moment.

An anecdote: I was asked yesterday by our consultancy office manager what I did with all the non-billable time that I put onto my timesheet each week. This is regularly 20 hours or more on top of the 40 or so billable hours that I work. I gave her a list - she seemed impressed (or perhaps appalled, not sure which) Add blogging to that, and yes, there are not enough hours in the day.

I am grateful for your honest response, please keep them coming. It is not whining when you put up your hand and ask for help. Everyone has the right to do that.

PS: Happy Anniversary :)
Cheers, Andrew

]]> By: Jeri http://facibus.com/onblogging/2007/06/22/the-power-of-leverage-how-do-we-kill-the-blog-monster/#comment-274 Jeri Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:37:49 +0000 http://facibus.com/onblogging/2007/06/22/the-power-of-leverage-how-do-we-kill-the-blog-monster/#comment-274 Candidly -- heck no, not yet! I'm suffering the same overload you are... more than full time day job, family, two (less than you!) blogs, trying to get started with freelance writing, and lately a professional online seminar for recertification. Plus my family is going on vacation for the next two weeks and I'm trying to pre-write techblog posts so I can truly vacation for at least a week of it - and I'm just plain striking out... can't get more than two or so ahead. If I didn't need to keep my day job while building a basis for something different - it'd be ever so much easier. Leaving that is not an option, though, so I just need to figure out how to balance it all a little more effectively and still take care of myself and my family. I feel silly whining because others manage to accomplish so much more with less. And the writing IS fun or I wouldn't do it! Still, I'm not sure how long I can keep up the pace without also needing to prune. Honest response, sorry! Candidly — heck no, not yet! I’m suffering the same overload you are… more than full time day job, family, two (less than you!) blogs, trying to get started with freelance writing, and lately a professional online seminar for recertification.

Plus my family is going on vacation for the next two weeks and I’m trying to pre-write techblog posts so I can truly vacation for at least a week of it - and I’m just plain striking out… can’t get more than two or so ahead.

If I didn’t need to keep my day job while building a basis for something different - it’d be ever so much easier. Leaving that is not an option, though, so I just need to figure out how to balance it all a little more effectively and still take care of myself and my family.

I feel silly whining because others manage to accomplish so much more with less. And the writing IS fun or I wouldn’t do it! Still, I’m not sure how long I can keep up the pace without also needing to prune.

Honest response, sorry!

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