Lately I have been working hard on my blog, writing blog posts late at night and making sure my website is the way I want it before I log off (to be honest I try to be a perfectionist and I won’t leave until something is the way I want it). I decided to leave a day of blogging and come back to it after a while. I was loosing sleep working on my posts and the next day I did not feel good at all. Sleep is such a simple thing, but Wikipedia does not think so, look at that text.

The Importance of a Break
When blogging it is important to have a break and not post at all for a day or to, you may think this will affect your blogs traffic and RSS Subscribers, but it should not really affect it at all. A break will allow you to think of new ideas for increasing your traffic and RSS subscriber amount. If you loose a reader or two, in the long run you will gain more. Taking a break will allow you to re-charge your batteries, concentrate on something else, complete other work or go for a walk for example.

How will not having a Break affect You and your Blog?
- You will not be able to concentrate whilst writing posts.
- You will make more mistakes than usual.
- You will be continuously writing and not having the chance to look back on what you have done.
- You will feel drained; you will have to get out the caffeine.
- Other ideas will overtake your head when you write and you will be overcome with what to write.

How a Break will help You
- You can order things in your head for when you return as well as write them down for you to start working on.
- The break from blogging you have will generate new ideas and give you plenty to do when you return.
- You can take a reality check and see how things are performing and make the necessary changes.
- You can do something else that needs doing in the time you would usually blog.

You could timestamp posts for the days that you are not going to be blogging but either way you want to do it you will want to take a break to click the refresh button in your head.

Interesting
Some People don’t need Sleep
I can’t believe some people do this, have a look at this page. That would be pure torture if you could not sleep!

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