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If you notice the sudden drop of the new posts in Blogjer recently, that’s because of me, that is not feeling very well. Not that bad, but it kills my mood to stay long in front of computer digging ideas and writing new posts.

I’m not good in scheduling, so I never writes a lots of posts in advance and schedule it to be posted over the week. Most of the time, if I just happen to find something interesting, I’ll draft and write it right away.That’s how I came out with couple of posts everyday as of late.

From your point of view, it might look that I post consistently, but it is last minutes works before and after I come back from the office. I draft something before I head to working and complete it once I back. It is quite tedious sometime.

When it come to consistency, I used to get myself to look upon professional/renown bloggers who are very discipline and consistent when it come to write a new post. It is true that, they are professional bloggers. They have dedicated their time and  attention on finding, researching and writing new post. After all, that is their career and how they live.

Although we can’t copy their ‘effort’ 100%, perhaps 50% of it, is already good enough for us, right??

How frequent professional bloggers writing new post in a week or a day? Just take some that I used to read and how have we fared against them.

• Amit Agarwal – Post daily except Sat & Sunday
• John Chow – Post Daily
• Darren Rowse – Post daily
• Seth Godin – Post Daily
• Paul Tan – Post daily
• Raymond.cc – Post almost daily

All of them post frequently on daily basis. Except the last example, all people listed above is pro bloggers. The last time I read, Raymond.cc is not a professional blogger(he is working as technical specialist If I’m not mistaken). But even without the ‘pro’ title, he still manage writing 1 post daily.

So we use him as the benchmark since he is just like us, part time bloggers. I know that we still have long ways to go before him, but at least we know that someone who blog on part time basis can achieve the same feat as the professional bloggers.

Obviously we can’t match the likes of Engadget, Gizmodo or Lifehacker that can produce tonnes of posts daily, even during public holidays . They have dedicated team who works only writing posts, doing site maintenance , administration and etc. So we better stick to the successful one-man-show blog as our blog ‘idol’.

Back to subject, being a good health condition physically and mentally might also help you become a better and consistent bloggers. Regardless what you’re writing, be it about your cat, your new phone, or more heavyweight subjects such as politics, technology or etc, it require a clear and bright mind from a good health,  that will produce excellent quality of post.

Take care. Keep writing and stay health.