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Hi Everyone! I will be honest with you as I write this blog post. I have been an extreme blogger bum. That’s right a hobo tie a blanket with 3 of your favorite items to a stick (mines is my iphone, lipgloss and Chiptole gift cards) over my shoulder and running-away-from-my-blog type of bum. I have not been in the mood to write, share content, upload or even type my figure to do anything on this site. I just haven’t been in the mood to do so. I have plenty of content, things I need to get published – but let me be honest…I have been burnt out.

This isn’t the first time I had a burnt-out moment on my blog. It happens, life starts taking over and then your desire to blog gets effected by it. I told you all I would attempt to tell more about my personal life and not just blog events, reviews, cool media stuff and share my real stuff too – but every time I do I get stuck. You ever felt like how you portray yourself online is not matching what you publish? Not saying I am faking who I am, or exaggerating at all…I would never do that – not even for a sponsored post. It’s just this blogger life I am trying to share with you all need a breath of fresh air. I don’t want to get muddled out being a blogger.

Sometimes being  a blogger can suck. People actually want stuff from us, demand it, and expect content from us. Blogging is transitioning from just a hobby to fulfilling real job duties – and with any job your put in enough work you can wear yourself out! Bloggers can get sunk into a rabbit-hole of even a blogging matrix per say. Sponsored post, attending events, reviewing items, editing videos, capturing the perfect picture and it starts to feel like its not authentic enough – sometimes. I know what some of my own personal blogger issues are and I will share them here:

Prioritization and Organizing

Not Loving My Blog Photos

Wanting A Better Camera Lens

Needing Better Photography Equipment

Personal Life Occurrences Outside of The Blog

Feeling Extremely Tired In My Personal Life to Produce Content

So Many Idea Not Enough Hours In The Day/Week to Post Them All

And that’s just some of the roller coaster of emotions I had since not posting on the blog lately. But I have to snap out of it.

Blogging this new cool world for some, a great opportunity that wasn’t available to us in this capacity a few years ago. When I was blogging in 2006-2007, it was just a fun platform to write and read other people’s personal journey. There was no sponsored post, YouTube and Social Media integration with blogs didn’t exist, and PR/Ad companies didn’t give a crap about a blogger. When I would tell people I blogged, everyone would look at me like so? Now it’s this cool platform and sometime I just feel like I have these high expectations to uphold, and then I fall short and I don’t want to let people down. I am also not SELLING MY SOUL to blog, meaning I will not be a blogging robot. I am still your fun quirky blogger girl who just want to share some great things with the world. I don’t want to be a drab about it though.

Blogging for me isn’t just this cool place…it’s really who I am. I literally had an inner epiphany that came to me a few days ago and the voice inside of me said WRITE boldly! Literally it scared me out my sleep, I guess that’s why it’s called a calling. I listened and I woke up! It was telling me it was my life mission to write and share my experiences. I have been doing that since I was a child…yes a child I was a blogger before the word existed. I wrote in journals, I always excelled in written essays/stories, I had a video camera at 13 years old, my first digital camera at 15, went to school for mass media communications – so literally I have been a JOURNALIST MY entire life!

So I have to listen to my voice – I have to honor my calling. My calling made me pick up the phone and it told me to WRITE.So I can’t just neglect my calling, even if I sometimes want to run away from it. I can’t run, so I needed a solution to motivate me again. I  So I thought about it and came out with a game plan on how to recover a blogger burn-out!

Clear your mind and energy space – If you have a lot going on, you need to take a break a breath. You cannot do everything all at once, even if you think you are super-blogger. De-clutter your mind and even your personal space because that can add to your overwhelming feeling.

Don’t look at your shortcomings – You can also fall short by looking at your own shortcomings or what you don’t have. Don’t compare yourself to others, don’t complain about what you don’t have either. Make the best of what you are doing, strategize on how to obtain what you need, and stay motivated on your own personal progress. Don’t be so hard on yourself.

Organize Post – Create a blogger editorial calender and schedule your post. Think about how many times a week you can consistently post on your blog, schedule in advance your topics on a calendar and maintain it. There are different apps and widgets to help in the organizational process and posting (Try HootSuite).

Stay Inspired – Are you feeling like you don’t have any content to post or having blogger’s block? There is always something to blog about so play around with what is the theme/holiday for the month, research trends in your niche and put your own spin to it, and you can always blog about your personal life (don’t be afraid to do that). If you find yourself coming up with several ideas, start placing them on your editorial calender (see previous tip).

Time Management – Whether you blog full-time or this is a part-time/hobby thing, you have to reserve some time. Don’t try to fill up your plate and exhaust yourself with posting content. Sit down and think of your free-time during the week, and block off that time specifically for your blog postings. It can be during your lunch break, after work, before bed or anytime you feel you will have complete freedom to do a posting without multi-tasking other responsibilities.

Review. Reflect. Rebrand – Look at what you have accomplished so far. A lot of times we don’t sit back and look at what we have done to get to where we are today with our blog. Check out your progress, look at what you need to change, and if you are really feeling like you blog is in a rut – don’t be afraid to reflect and re-brand. Re-branding doesn’t mean you have to get a new blogger name, or even change your entire web design, it could just be more fine tuning your niche and your approach with your blogging platform.

So everything I listed are things I am currently going to improve with my own blog so I can refrain from blogger burn-out. I am definitely going to re-brand a little bit for 2015. My blog is growing, and I am happy with how far I have came but there is room for improvement! For 2015 photography enhancement is #1 on my list to give you the content I wish to truly share with you all. All these events I attend, the products and beauty things I share with you all – I need to amplify it with my photography so I am working on getting better equipment and lens to become the professional I desire to be. I am not just a blogger, I am a photo journalist and that’t the true beauty I want to share with you. So that’s where my burn-out came from…

I just want to be a better blogger and I think the burnout was a good opportunity to review and reflect for good change!

Have you ever experienced a blogger burn-out? What are some tips you like or have to add to resolve a blogger burn-out situation?