Why Should Bloggers Burnout?

Here’s an advice I bet no blogger has ever told you about. I’d like to tell you, “you should burnout as a blogger”. Have you ever experienced a blogger burnout? Do you know why you can suffer a blogger burnout? Trust me, I’ve gone through a temporary burnout before and understand why it’s important to experience it. But in the first place, how do you define a blogger burnout?

If I left it to Wikipedia to explain:

Burnout is a psychological term for the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest (depersonalization or cynicism), usually in the work context. It is also used as an English slang term to mean exhaustion.

A blogger burnout is really a psychological exhaustion suffered from excessive brainstorm-ing or writing in your blog. Have you been experiencing difficulty coming up with ideas to blog? Or have you placed an expectation too high on yourself for your blog?

If you answered a yes or nodded your head or paused a while to think about it, you definetely need to know why a blogger should burnout.

When a blogger experiences a burnout, you are forced to take a break and rest. This is the last resort which happens when you need to regain your composure to blog again. Besides taking a break, this is a chance for you to mentally and physically rest from blogging. One of the missing elements when a blogger is starting to burnout is observation.

While recuperating from blogger burnout, it allows your mind to roam free and become observant again. You start to notice the girl who was always smiling at you or the guy who always sat a table in front of you. Bloggers are influenced by the environment and daily experiences around them. Many bloggers who start finding it difficult to blog don’t notice their observation dropped to an all-time low.

During this time, you finally will have the time to read normally and not concentrate on how you should write. This is an opportunity for you to read what you have actually written in the past and how it was read by your readers. Now, you finally have the time to benchmark yourself.

In conclusion, it may be good to burnout once in your blogging career. Get some needed rest, go out with the girl or guy you missed, bounce back with a new chapter for your blog and see things from a different point of view again.

Have you experienced a burnout yet?

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6 Responses to “Why Should Bloggers Burnout?”

1. Response #1 by lilian on July 20th, 2007

   Nope. Not when the greenbacks are right there for the taking. I can write huge numbers of posts on many topics non-stop. Want to dig my brain to find out how it functions?

2. Response #2 by Danny Foo on July 21st, 2007

   Hm…maybe I should absorb it like, Sylar.

3. Response #3 by iced nyior on July 21st, 2007

   i also want to dig ur brain lilian I realized that i used to have fantastic posts last year and quite biasa-biasa ones this year. And when i stop blogging for a week or so, i lose a lot of readers

4. Response #4 by Danny Foo on July 21st, 2007

   Well, I’ll talk about blogging strategies later.

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