Blogger’s Stress – Does it affect you or are you a superman?

Well, it may happen without your knowledge most of the times, and if you really look for it, you’ll find it. (Damn, I’m sounding like a preacher now.)

Yes, indeed. In fact, I hadn’t thought about it in my earlier days of blogging. But as it grew on me, I could sense some pressure building up. And that’s right here with me as I write this post.

What is the pressure, is it the stress?

Well the Wikipedia definition for stress is  –

Stress is the condition that results when person-environment transactions lead the individual to perceive a discrepancy, whether real or not, between the demands of a situation and the resources of the person’s biological, psychological or social systems.

So, that explains it. I constantly get’s questions asked to myself while writing an article.

• Will this article be of interest to your readers?
• Does it make sense?
• Would you run out of topics to blog on?
• Is it of the quality that will make it popular?
• If it get’s popular, would you be able to write a second part to it?
• Are there any errors in the points that you mentioned?

So as long as I’m going to be asked these questions, I think the stress factor is always going to be there.

But it’s just not bloggers right? Everyone goes through it, the news reader, the ceo, the stock broker and the police man. And bloggers are the one group of geeks that stay on the edge all the time, so it’s quite natural.

How does it affect you in blogging?

Positively. You see it’s natural for a blogger to undergo stress, after all, you are competing with the rest of the world to make it to the top. So, I think it’s a good sign to have stress. The point is that you shouldn’t let it grow bigger than you. You got to have a command over it. Once it gains over you, you collapse and things go haywire. So make it a point to keep it to a minimal level and make it a positive virtue.

What can do to get over it?

Getting over stress is easy for bloggers compared to other fields of work. Simply because bloggers have a lot of options, a lot of them. Take for instance the questions I asked you earlier.

Will this article be of interest to your readers? - Just rephrase this question. What is the worst case scenario if your readers don’t get interested in it ? They may not leave comments. They may write a comment criticizing you. What else? Cancel your subscription? Yes may be. But in that case you can write a better article next time. Something that explains the readers who not to be stupid and write stupid articles that make you lose your subscription. You caould take the example of the first post too.

So it’s basically about making the best of whatever you’ve got. If you got a bad writing style, show it to people and say – this is how you shouldn’t write your article. You just passed on some information to them. And, they’ll appreciate it.  

Another way to go about it is to get proactive.

Foresee what your goals are and what the bottlenecks are. Make a comparison, study it well and start gathering resources that will get you over the situation. So when the time comes, you’ll be pretty much comfortable with what you are doing.

So essentially, stress in blogging is pretty much natural, but bloggers are at the luxury of having more options than others. Get proactive and study your weaknesses, you’ll be safe when the testing time comes.