Blog While You Jog?

2008-04-25T22:44:00.000-07:00

Blog While You Jog.........

What on earth would I mean by 'blog while you jog'? I'm sure some of you have an idea of what I'm thinking!

I have trouble often with staying focused on what I'm working on. When this happens I may as well be beating my head up against my monitor! I've found its usually either I'm too tired to be expecting myself to function, or I've got other issues nagging at me for attention.

In the case of the latter-- being other issues, I've found I'll spend too much time trying to make myself focus and get very little done. Self-defeating to say the least.

I've surprised myself several times after having those type of work days. What would happen is I'd throw my hands up after spinning my wheels and go do something else requiring less concentration.

The first time anything significant happened I'd decided to go in to town for groceries. The closest grocery store is 13 miles away. I live in the mountains so the drive is all two lane highway with a lot of curves and after 5 years I guess I tend to drive on 'automatic'.

This one particular day as I was pulling in to the parking lot I realized I had not only figured out what I'd been stumped on earlier but was already wording it into my blog in my head! I felt inspired at that moment and by the time I was back home I knew exactly what I wanted to write and had that blog completed in no time.

This is actually quite the same concept as if you're trying too hard to remember a name and then two days later it pops in your mind when it was the furthest from your mind.

This happens to me all the time now-- I guess once I became aware I did it with important issues too, and not just insignificant ones, I realized I needed to make the best of this type of brainstorming, if I could. After all, I was able to surpass my own expectations with the thoughts that formed as I was concentrating on the turns in the road than I did when I was trying to force it together unsuccessfully at my desk earlier that day.

I actually don't jog, but I have a friend that does and recalled a conversation with her where she told me she did her best thinking when she was jogging. My highway brainstorming is along the same concept as hers. If you're doing something you're familiar with enough to go on 'automatic' as you're doing it, that could turn out to be some of your best thinking time yet!

I realize how incredibly simplistic this sounds, but oddly enough its the simple things that get overlooked all too often.

I have come to thoroughly enjoy blogging although I still feel like a newbie! It's a great way to vent, to talk to your blog as you write, share your feelings, and just recently I realized how awesome they are for getting to know others with same interests. Then there's advertising. Wow!!!

I want to share with you about an e-book I invested in. It was very inexpensive for the contents! I'm still reading, but I'm hyped because I've already learned several things crucial for me because I had read the same info elsewhere but didn't actually understand it until I read it in 'Blogging To The Bank 2.0'. I just understood Rob's way of describing what I was reading better than anywhere else I'd read it. I've included a link for you so you can check it out for yourself! It's so worth checking out!!

Blogging To The Bank 2.0 is written by Rob Benwell and even though I'm not even done reading it, it's already helped me tremendously. He has a whole lot to offer for a very small amount-- it will help you too! I'm very confident I'll not only continue benefiting from his knowledge, but I'll reap some rewards ($$$) also! I'd love it if someone out there would join me.

I'll be updating as I progress with Rob's brilliant and comprehensible instructions- Hope to see you out there.

Blog While You Jog?

I wish everyone the best!

Carol McCrow