A Good Reason NOT to Blog

Blogging is an opportunity to communicate and make connections which may grow you personally or which may grow your business.  However, it may not be the right choice for you.

How could something that so many people value be bad for anybody?  If your blog is hosted on a free site, it won't cost you anything - except time and maybe a little emotional energy.

We all know, on some level, that our lives are finite and our time is limited.  Sometimes, we think we don't have enough time for what truly matters.  Julie Henderson reminds us that we DO have the time to achieve our goals:

Many people say they don’t have enough time. Yet, the truth is you all have the same amount of time in a day: 24 hours or 1,440 minutes. In fact, you have exactly the same amount of time that was given to Helen Keller, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein.

If I have as much time as Helen Keller and Thomas Edison, why am I so much less effective?  Doug Fields, in writing about how to be an effective youth pastor or leader, tells us:

You will always have dozens of opportunities, but you need to decide if your time is going to be managed by your opportunities or your priorities.... Examine your opportunities and ask yourself: "Will this help us better accomplish one of our purposes...?"  If it won't help you accomplish your purpose, it will drain some of your time....  Keep from being managed by your opportunities and try to be managed by your purposes.  The old adage "If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time" is true.  What is also true is that if you aim at everything, you'll seldom hit your target.  Your purposes, however, will keep you aiming straight at the target....

Blogging may be a fabulous opportunity, but is it one of your priorities?  Will it help you accomplish your life purposes?  Will it siphon time and energy from what you truly care about?

If blogging (or anything else in your life) is a distraction from what you really want to do, let it go.  Or better yet, don't start blogging at all!

Today's Links

Some reasons NOT to blog
A really good list of reasons TO blog

Bibliography
Fields, Doug. Purpose-Driven Youth Ministry. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1998. page 77

Henderson, Julie. "We All Have the Same Amount of Time." Expect Success - Be UnStoppable. 10 Sept. 2010. Web. 6 Nov. 2010. <http://expectsuccessbeunstoppable.com/blog/post.cfm?Title=WE_ALL_HAVE_THE_SAME_AMOUNT_OF_TIME>.