Updated 2021.01.07

This morning I received a question about someone's lights flickering in their house.

While this can be a sign of an electrical problem, it’s also a possible sign of a more spiritual type issue happening (learn more about lights flickering here).

Anywho, I received this question the morning in my pajamas, while drinking a coffee in bed.

After I'd spent the entire week refreshing my creative well, taking a break from blogging and writing altogether, and quite honestly, taking a step back from blogging. 

Over the years, I’ve routinely taken at least one blog break every year, either smack in the middle of summer or over the holiday season.

Each of my breaks has ranged from 2-6 weeks in length.

It’s okay to take a vacation, and know I’ve never noticed that much of a difference in sales, visitors, or even a loss of readers when I’ve done it and set things up ahead of time.

Perhaps that's because in my eCourse, Marketing for Mediums (now called the Grow Your Intuitive Business eCourse), I talk about cultivating your ideal client and I've been working on that for years. Maybe my ideal client is okay with me relaxing.

So much good that’s happened in what I do now, has happened to me because of this blog.

The eBooks I’ve published, the sessions completed, and even The Membership all have happened because of this blog.

So I understand the need to keep it going. And while I don’t plan to quit it all together, there are many good and necessary reasons for taking a break:

Taking a blogging break allows you to refresh the creative well

When you stop giving, giving, giving, teaching, teaching, teaching, and sharing, sharing, sharing, so much, it gives you more time to observe, do, and try out new things for yourself and for your brand. It also allows you to receive.

Which is good because . . .  

Slowing down the blogging train helps you write better blogs

Furthermore, when you are always pushing out new content, you’ll find that some of the content will repeat itself - which is good in a way - because old marketing says that it takes seven times for a message to stick.

So if you have a service you’re talking about - talk about it seven times. If you have a message, and you need people to remember - say it in seven different ways.

As a writer, understandably, doing that - it can be tiring for you - to beat the drum with the same thing every time.

It’ll help you come up with new things to write about

Being in a constant tunnel of production is just that - a tunnel.

It’s easy to see where you are going, but it’s hard to tell where you are, in the grand scheme of things. 

So stepping away from blogging can help you see your message, your brand, what you’re talking about, from a new, outsider’s perspective, that’s a bit more objective. That allows new ideas to flow in.

And it gives space for new people to show up, who then infuse new life and understanding into your work. Which you'll need quite a bit because . . .    

Being successful at blogging can take a lot of work at times

When I was first starting my blog, it’s safe to say I worked anywhere between 80-100 hours a week on it. Now, I can easily say that number is down to 40-50, but I still regularly put in a solid week.

Like most bloggers would say - I agree -

This blog is more than a hobby - I breathe what I teach and talk about. There’s no other way my website would be what it is today. 

This morning no sooner was I out of bed, then I had an old friend sending me video footage of different types of spirit phenomena they’d captured in their home.

Is this work, because it’s what I write about on the blog?

Or is this a hobby, because I was doing it over coffee in my pj's and I thoroughly enjoyed it?

Most writers are successful because they eat, sleep and breathe what they do. They walk the talk. They love what they do.

Writing and the research of what to write next, being a love, a hobby, and a practice. 

So don’t stress yourself out over what is work, and what is not work, but if you’re genuinely getting burn-out, take a few nights off and close your eyes.

If you don’t feel yourself stopping altogether, or you worry about business, just change topics for a little bit

Or try a new writing style.

Start taking your own original photography, and then let your snaps guide what you talk about that week.

Or start taking reader questions.

Reader questions you can answer in your sleep, and on the plus side, you’re helping a ton of people at the same time. And, it doesn’t feel like you are pulling a topic out of thin air - which can make the writing feel rigorous at times

While it’s true that blogging may not be for you, after all, let’s be real -

That’s probably not the case.

Probably, you just need to go refill your creative well -

So go out and BE - be you for a little while.

Put some articles on the back burner so you feel safe. 

Or review some products you like and throw that up there.

 . . . but during your break, only if you want. 

So go, go experience life.

Some of my highest paying bookings have only happened once I've stepped away. 

Then, when you’re back, you’ll be able to share all that new wisdom you’ve gained with your readers.

You’ll have come up with some great ideas for new products and services you can offer.

And most importantly, you’ll feel refreshed, which always leads to better writing.

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