Comments on: How Stressful Do You Find Blogging?

By: mankind

mankind — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:23:03 +0000

Stay long time looking monitor will face lots of problem.My back got sick

By: Kristen

Kristen — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:53:36 +0000

Thank you for this serendipitous post! After 3 months of glorious stress-free blogging, this weekend has been a disaster — my host suspended my site due to a stat. tracking glitch and I made the mistake of reading a book about AdWords that completely stressed me out…

Tip #2 and #3 was just what I needed to read… Thank you!

By: Guardian Angel

Guardian Angel — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:09:16 +0000

Well, I think the blogger himself is the one who puts stress in his work, and not the work itself. We should remember that blogging has no boss except for himself. Any blogger is the boss himself. The only stress one can feel is that when he is not earning what he wants to earn, or he is not the mood for blogging at this time and his posts were not updated as he wants to be. One must rememebr that blogging is a passion, not a work. Darren himself loves blogging and I can see it in his posts.

By: Carl - Thatblogsite.com

Carl - Thatblogsite.com — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:40:50 +0000

Darren, I’ve posted some of my thoughts regarding the stress of blogging in my post http://www.thatblogsite.com/set-out-your-tasks/ if you wish to look.

May help a few people.

Carl – http://www.thatblogsite.com

By: gary

gary — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:45:39 +0000

I think blogging is a hassle.

By: ReidC

ReidC — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:49:40 +0000

I know I’m on “problogger” and all, but just reading through the comments a lot of the stress seems to come from the need to make a living, pay the mortgage, etc. Maybe blogging isn’t the right word for the professional version of what we do. Although we still call them blogs, the moneymakers are more like publications with the associated details: deadlines, readership, advertisers, demographics, collections, etc. etc. etc.

Of course those are stressful.

So, basically, I agree with #1, treat it like what it is: work. #5 on the other hand, well let’s just say I’m off to Starbucks.

By: Lea Woodward

Lea Woodward — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:53:05 +0000

@Miracle – I really did LOL at your comment. Thank you for the compliment!! I am most definitely a techy geek at heart – love gadgets, love cellphones, love the net, love blogging.

“We can have attractive people involved”….that is classic!!

To everyone else – thanks for the comments. I did indeed write this post – it’s the monthly post here on problogger about “healthy blogging” that Darren kindly invited me to write.

Sounds to me like blogging can be a major stress at times for many of you..but the rewards are worth it.

Probably sums up how I feel about it too :-)

By: Miracle

Miracle — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:31:26 +0000

I know I’ll catch some flak for this comment, but I have to say how surprised I was when I saw your picture on your blog. I wasn’t expecting to see a gorgeous girl talking about the normally geeky topics such as Social Media and problogging.
I, for one, am proud to see that I was wrong in my assumptions about my fellow bloggers. We can have attractive people involved :)

By: Gisele B. from myBeautyMatch.com

Gisele B. from myBeautyMatch.com — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:34:06 +0000

I agree…I find the pressure of making money via your words extremely stressful and I’m guilty as sin of being addicted to my stats.

To be honest…after 7 months, I have to say blogging is not what I expected and it’s very much like Darren’s last video: watching grass grow…which is a bit stressful.

Gisele

By: JEMi

JEMi — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:13:32 +0000

I actually wrote a post about dealing with criticism on my blog

http://www.inmyheels.com/black-light-dealing-with-criticism/

I find that we all deal with this at one point or another .. as a new blogger, not knowing how to deal with the negative comments can easily discourage someone from remaining true to his voice on his own blog

in regards to stress.. well I do feel a healthy does of it when I start the stat watching thing
it takes a moment of refocusing the purpose and the kind of quality I want to put out there to remind me that this is something fun that I chose to do

I love watching my blog grow- I’m proud of what it’s becoming and it would sadden me if it became something that I’ve come to dread

these tips are useful – this article was a good read. Thanks!

By: Chris Howard

Chris Howard — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:51:25 +0000

Lea, nice article. I can add a few symptoms, but one I’d like to note for chronic stress/anxiety is digestive problems. From personal experience I found that I can have trouble swallowing food and get heartburn more often when my anxiety levels are higher.

Paul, there’s plenty of evidence on the ‘net to support the fact sugar affects the working of the immune system.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:12:01 +0000

Darren, there are many good reasons to limit sugar intake — obesity, tooth decay, empty calories — but I’m not sure immune system depression is one of them.

Nice try though :-).

By: Meg

Meg — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:37:36 +0000

@ Meg Meyer:

I clicked on the link provided about the personal experience regarding the negative comments, and it goes to Lea Woodard’s blog. Plus the bio blip you mentiioned, I think it’s safe to say the Lea Woodard, not Darren, freelanced this article.

Great article, Lea!

By: Marylin

Marylin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:32:59 +0000

I don’t generally feel stressed when I’m blogging, I just wish I had a bit more time to spend doing it.
although having signed up for blog365 I am feeling a bit more pressure to post, at the end of the day though blogging, for me, is about having something to keep my mind active when looking after 2 young kids. It’s a great release from the babytalk, even if I do end up gushing on about them in it… like now…

By: Technology Slice

Technology Slice — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:07 +0000

The way I see it if you don’t enjoy it you shouldn’t do it.

By: Max Speed Tuning Blog

Max Speed Tuning Blog — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:13:51 +0000

The greatest horror for me is checking the states. I do it every quarter hour. Awful!

By: Bill Mossburg

Bill Mossburg — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:16:28 +0000

I was with you until number 5: for me its coffee in the morning and diet coke at night. Maybe we need a blog that functions as a 12 step group for caffeine addicts like me, and MANY of you.

But you are right.

By: Annie B Lawrence

Annie B Lawrence — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:15:00 +0000

I enjoy the writing as I think that most bloggers do. I am still working on building up relationships, and probably find the marketing and building traffic to be most stressful. I look forward to the day when I have built successful relationships and have a strong readership.

http://www.loveambassador.blogspot.com

By: Make Money Online Dot Net

Make Money Online Dot Net — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:15:45 +0000

Stats and making a living from it are my biggest stressers. The actual writing I don’t mind as I tend to just write about whatever brain farts are floating about in my head.

By: Mathew Packer

Mathew Packer — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:11:52 +0000

I find the writing kind of a release so at this stage it’s not stressing me much at all, sure it’s harder to write when its a slow news week but these days they’re quite a rarity..

At this stage I’m only writing for 3 blogs, maybe if that picks up or my writing becomes more in demand, then I can see that my stress levels might skyrocket!