You can read the blog post below, or you can just watch the YouTube video:
My Blogging Routine as a Beginner Blogger
Just note that this blogging routine is my current routine as a beginner.
I am 100% sure that there will be changes to it as I continue on with blogging.
What I am going to share is the routine and system for blogging that I would’ve used if I knew about this when I started blogging.
Why I’ve Focused on Developing Routines Than Setting Goals
I have been blogging for less than a year now, and it has been so much fun.
What I have been focusing on most as a beginner, is developing my systems, routines, and habits. I want to know exactly what I am doing first, before I proceed with taking further steps to accomplish the other goals I have for my blog.
In my blog post where I talked about why it’s best to focus on systems more than goals, I mentioned how systems would give us the processes needed to get to our goals, and make adjustments accordingly whenever we feel like it’s not bringing us closer to our goals. This is much more beneficial than getting caught up with accomplishing our goals, restricting our happiness because of it and thinking that achieving a goal is just a one-time change.
It took a bit of trial and error to develop a proper routine, but I’m happy with the way that my system is now, and like what I have said before, if I were to start blogging again, this would be the system and routine I would use to start off.
Now that I’ve developed my system and routine, I’m now leaning more towards focusing on accomplishing the goals that I have set for my blog.
I have felt that this routine had allowed me to set a consistent pace of blog posts. I expect this to be prone to change in the future (UPDATE: it has changed a bit since writing this blog post). Regardless, this routine and system has been working really well for me, and I’m still going to be making adjustments as I go.
The 3 C’s
There are three main areas that I focus on in my blog.
The three main areas that I focus on my blog are:
- Content Creation
- Communication
- Creative Building
(The first two C’s were unintentional, so I wanted to make the third one a C as well).
I’ll now outline what each one does:
Content Creation
This is the most important part of the blog – it’s the content that would make or break the blog.
To outline, content creation is pretty much… creating content. DUH.
This includes the blog posts, YouTube videos (just a start), newsletter (still a work-in-progress but getting closer to getting there), and my social media posts.
For this blog post, I’ll just focus a little bit more on the system for blog posts.
There are three things that I work on when it comes to the blog posts:
1. When to Post
I like to plan what I am going to write, at least minimum a week before.
I tried writing blogs the night before (or even the day of) I was going to publish them. However, my writing flow just didn’t go well that way, and I would always feel rushed in the blog posts that I published.
Now that I’ve been writing my blog posts ahead of time, I don’t ever feel rushed. My writing flow works so much better, and I don’t feel a lot of pressure from myself to both write a high quality blog post and do that on time as well.
2. What to Post
The content that I write about in my posts come from:
- The books that I read
- Podcasts
- Audiobooks
- YouTube videos
- Instagram posts (the motivational and informative ones)
It’s a bit weird, but my ideas only ever come when I don’t plan to write. Whenever I sit down for a writing session, I get writer’s block.
When I do something other than writing, that’s when I all of a sudden get all these ideas.
Whenever I think about a potential blog idea, or even a social media post or newsletter idea, I note it down on my Notion (note-taking application). Then what gives me the best relieving feeling is that when I sit down to write a new blog post, I have all these list of ideas waiting for me. This is my way of never running out of stuff to write about.
3. How many posts to prepare
I follow this rule – TWO is ONE, ONE is NONE rule.
If I have two posts already written, I really only have one. If only have one post written, I really have none.
I’ve learned to have another backup blog post just in case anything happens and I can’t write anything else for my other planned publishing dates.
For example, if I was sick and couldn’t do any writing, at least I would have that back-up blog post.
Communication
This involves all the communication tasks with my readers and audience.
These include my email lists and my social media.
To be honest here, this is a work in progress, and I am still working on improving the system for this part of blogging.
I’ve started my social media accounts such as Instagram and Pinterest, so it’s still a continued work in progress. Again, I’m still focusing on developing routines and systems, before I start thinking about figuring out how to achieve some of the goals.
It’s the same with my email as well (I use MailChimp and I have a separate Gmail account for blog inquiries). I aim to check it at least twice a week. In the future, it may need to be more times, but since I’m just a beginner blogger, I don’t need to check it as much.
Creative Building
To sum it up, creative building is the personal development for my blog.
Just like doing personal development on ourselves, the personal development for the blog would be managing the blog, enhancing it, and improving it. I may learn through different blog courses or learn from other bloggers.
There are always ways that I would find to make my blog better and there’s always something to fix about my blog that I need to get sorted.
It’s pretty much all the creative stuff that has nothing to do with the content creating.
And… That’s My Current Routine!
Ultimately, that is my blogging routine that I’ve been using as a beginner. It took lots of trial and error, but I have felt that it has been working, and had fit into my lifestyle quite well.
This blogging routine may change overtime as I continue to learn more, and I look forward to doing another post where I update a routine as a “not really a beginner anymore”.
Feel free to watch my video version of this if you’d like to see visuals and hear me talk instead… 🙂
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