How Offline Time Aids Your Blogging Campaign

This is a guest post by Ryan Biddulph. He shares smart blogging tips at Blogging From Paradise.

Being offline is as important as being online.

Does this idea confuse you?

Think it through.

Spending hours offline daily increases your creativity, establishes a sense of trust about your blog and energizes you for your work. Being offline lets you enjoy the freedom of living the internet lifestyle. Visit the store at off peak hours. Take your kids to school. Eat lunch with your husband or wife. Sleep in. Go to bed early. Capitalize on running a thriving blogging business. Soak up the passive element.

But bloggers fear being offline because humans generally do not believe in the power of their work. Do you micro-manage? Do you need to handle every aspect of your blogging campaign? Do you stay up late and wake early to get your blogging work done daily? Be generous. Be diligent. Be persistent. But avoid overworking and the inevitable burnout following your obsession with being online.

Check out these reasons why being offline aids your blogging campaign.

Increase Your Creativity

Increase your creativity. Fill your mind with ideas. Spend hours offline daily to detach from blogging. Allow in blog post topics to explore and expound upon. Blogging gets easy for bloggers who spend ample time offline because creative types spend ample time in quiet. Prolific bloggers pluck ideas from the ethers at will in silence.

Turn off your phone. Shut off the internet on your laptop. Sit in a quiet room. Relax. Play around with ideas. Being online blogging tends to create increased tension as online time grows. Mind-ego busies itself with gaining friends, traffic, profits and business. Being offline shifts attention-energy from gaining to giving.

Writer’s block cripples bloggers hellbent on being online. Tension arises in your being if you rarely shut down your phone and turn off the internet on your computer. Exit the online world. Enter the offline world. Dissolve blocks to creativity. Become prolific.

Develop a Deep Sense of Trust

Spend time offline to deeply trust in yourself and your blog. Trust in the quality of your blogging work. Trust your blogging skills. Allow your blog posts and guest posts to gain steam through merit.

Bloggers rarely believe deeply in their work. Lack of belief manifests as feeling the need to promote your content aggressively across a wide range of channels. Relax. Allow your blog content to promote itself – save light social media sharing – by spending more time offline. Readers promote good content for you. Add a passive element to your blogging campaign. Let your content be seen through its effectiveness, value and power. Enjoy life offline. Succeed online. Free yourself.

Stabilize Your Energy

Stabilize your energy. Take off time from blogging. Rest. Recharge. Meditate. Do yoga. Enjoy life with your family.

Blogging is a long term commitment spanning years of your life. Going pro requires 1000’s upon 1000’s of hours spent working online. Spend time offline to energize yourself for time spent online.

Set up blogging hours daily. Establish equally important offline hours. Make offline time as important as online time. Beware staying up late to blog if you should be sleeping or unwinding before bed. Block your blog and social media sites if necessary to ensure you remain offline during scheduled rest periods.

Being offline is as important as being online.

Allow this idea to sear onto your mind to accelerate your blogging success.