07.06.06
Keeping a Work-Life-Blog Balance
Blogging for profit, as with any other for-profit venture, must be taken as serious as starting your own business. For example, I check traffic stats to my sites, profit for the day and analyze trends almost hourly. If things are moving up, I record what I have done lately for this change to take effect and act quickly to counteract any downwards trends just the same.
Keeping balance in your life between work and pleasure is something that we all combat daily. For us bloggers, we have one more activity to balance than most people do and it is important to keep everything in proportion. With that in mind, tonight I’ll be heading down to Mexico for a week 
, returning on July 15th. For the first time in nearly a year, I will be completely disconnected from the world — no cell phone, no computer, no PDA, nothing — and I can’t wait!
The plan is to return refreshed and ready to work on my blogs again. When I return, I will be putting my full efforts into developing the new site Stuck in the Sand as well as a few others which are still in the conceptual phases… and for those of you who still don’t think there is any money in blogging, my entire trip is being paid for through CyberWyre.
So keep at it, work hard, and don’t forget to take a vacation!
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Where in Mexico are you going?
I’m from Mexico, and maybe I can give you some tips and nice places to visit.
Acapulco. Any tips would be great!
Have a great time. Everyone needs an escape for the regular.
Don’t forget to take some pictures.
Hey i have you bookmarked for life! Im just glad to know there are others out there in the world who make money from the Net and seem to struggle with the same balancing act i do, work, play, work, family, work, work, work. Thanks for sharing your insite about life and money on this great invention. I currently sell full time on eBay and make a good living. In the last 2 years i have been buying domains and building websites and blogs my best todate is http://skate-shoes.blogspot.com/ Im ranked in search engines and talked about all over the net but im still a small fish in the sea. I have about 6 or 7 new ideas to try to help build my network up and will be trying them out in next couple months and years. You have helped me in many ways to make more money from this career path. Thanks for all the imput and ideas, cheers
Awesome!
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I tend to have a problem having that balance, and it is indeed true how hard it is to keeping it balanced especially having a blog (and a girlfriend which take up both time AND money
Anyways, I’m a new blogger and I just started trying to make revenue off of it to pay for grad school. I just wanted to drop this in and tell you I enjoy your site and got it bookmarked!
Hope you enjoyed Mexico!!!