How to Blog Consistently Along With Your Day Job

In recent years, a large number of net-savvy people has switched to professional blogging along with their regular day job. Unfortunately, a good percentage of them quit their blogging career in less than 6 months. Others do it at an irregular pace slowly abandoning it completely. Only a handful of these people make it big and manage to make decent money out of it. If you're in the same league, you must prepare yourself to delicately balance your day job time and your blogging routine. Here are some of the tips that will help you in achieving success in blogging consistently along with your day job. All the advice given below can be easily implemented provided you're all ready to give it a go. I started blogging during my full-time job and went through a bad experience as I was not able to keep it consistent. Fortunately, the tips given below were given to me by an experienced blogger which I'm passing to all of you. Do share your experience with us after applying all the strategies discussed below.

If you're an absolute beginner, you may find these tips extremely valuable as they will save you a lot of time and effort, right from day one. Even if you're not in a day job, you're going to benefit from it.

So, let's get started and see how we can make the most out of our spare time while doing a full-time day job. It's not that hard as you'll see in the guidelines and suggestions given below. So, here we go!

Make the Most Out of Your Weekends

Weekends should be leveraged intelligently to get the maximum work done for the whole week. Write your best posts on weekends including miscellaneous tasks like theme tweaking, comment moderation, and networking.

I generally use weekends to skim new ideas for posts and make final drafts for as many posts as I can.

Prepare Rough Drafts for the Whole Week

This is one of the best techniques to lower your burden for the whole week. Prepare the final drafts including the images to be used in the posts for the whole week. This saves your research time and you can get started in no time daily.

These drafts ensure that you devote your weekdays only to writing the content and that's what matters for your readers as well as for your successful blogging career.

Remove Distractions

Remove your TV, music player, and other consumer electronics goods from your room to increase productivity. While writing the posts, log out from all your accounts, close the browser, and use a minimal full-screen text editor to write efficiently, without any distractions.

Prepare Editorial Calender

It is strongly advised to create a daily routine editorial calendar beforehand for the coming month. This enables you to plan in time and in making desired changes in your day-to-day activities.

Make sure you divide your work for each day allocating each task for every single day in the editorial calendar.

Create a Separate Home Office

Sometimes, people do the mistake of starting their blogging activities in their living room or dining room in the presence of their family members. This results in poor productivity due to repetitive distractions.

You must create a small home office in a separate room to get the look-n-feel of a professional environment. This greatly helps in increasing productivity.