PB082: 8 Tips for Busy Bloggers–How to Make the Most of the Time You Have - a podcast by Darren Rowse: Blogger, Speaker, Author and Online Entrepreneur

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8 Ways to Make the Most of Your Blogging TimeToday's episode is about how to make the most of the time you have. Juggling time to blog with other things in your life is one of the most common challenges that bloggers experience, including me. I recently got together with 5 other bloggers where we talked about this, and I've spent a lot of effort myself in trying to get better at managing my time. In today's episode, I share eight tips and strategies you can use to make fitting blogging into your life less stressful.





In This EpisodeYou can listen to today's episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we'd also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have a moment). In today's episode:

How to work out what your life priorities areHow to work out how you're currently spending your time
How to work out what your blogging priorities are (and the 4 priorities I focus on for my blogs)How to change your schedule to increase blogging effectiveness
Why batching your tasks is so importantHow'mental blogging'can save you time
Why setting aside time for idea generation can save you timeHow to break down big jobs into small bites
How to embrace slow blogging - why less can be moreWhy putting time into preparing for the next week can save you time
Why setting aside time for rest, inspiration, and well being should be a regular part of your blog scheduleWhy NOW is the perfect time to review your priorities and redesign your blog and life schedule

Further Reading and Resources for 8 Ways to Make the Most of Your Blogging TimeEpisode 40: 7 Productivity Tips For Bloggers (includes my ideal weekly blogging/life schedule)
Blog Wise: How to Do More with Less (ebook)How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive
Discover Hundreds of Post Ideas for Your Blog with Mind MappingWebinar Recording: 10 Things I Wish I Knew About Blogging Before I Started
Kemi's blog 

Tools I use to save time: To track how I spend my time - Rescue Time
Mind mapping ideas - MindNode (other bloggers also use Trello)To do list app – wunderlist
Calendar I use from my phone, computer and watch – Fantastical 2Writing and sorting content – Evernote
Team communication – SlackSocial media management – Meet Edgar, CoScheduleFull TranscriptExpand to view full transcript
Compress to smaller transcript viewHi there. My name's Darren Rowse. Welcome to episode 82 of the ProBlogger Podcast. Today, I want to take a break from the shorter podcast that I've been doing over the last couple of weeks and talk about something that I think is particularly relevant for this time of the year. That is juggling the time that you have from blogging. I want to give you eight tips today for busy bloggers on how to make the most of the time that you have. You can find today's show notes at problogger.com/podcast/82. 

I had a recent coffee with five other bloggers. It's kind of an end of year breakup of sorts for those of us who have small businesses and don't get a chance to have a big Christmas party. As we're having our coffee, we went around the circle, and we talked about our biggest successes over the last year but then talked about our biggest challenges for the year ahead. Every single one of us as we went around and talked about challenges for next year, mentioned that we were struggling with time in one way or another.

Most of us had busy lives not just with our blogging but many of us had families, some of us had other commitments to churches, community groups, sporting groups, and other priorities. Most of us have friends as well. This juggle of how to fit blogging into the rest of our lives was a common thing that many of us faced as we went around. Our conversation then moved to what tips could we gi...

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