How to Make Blogging a Habit

Make blogging a habit.

Have you been neglecting your blogs? Have you been procrastinating about posting? For many bloggers, blogging can be a very satisfying activity, especially if you're a writer at heart or if you blog to earn income. But blogging it's not an easy thing to do if you have other important things to attend to, such as a day job or family. Thankfully, you can always do time management. You simply need to schedule time for you to blog. It seems easy to do, but if you've other activities not related to blogging, then you need to change and work your way to making blogging your new habit.

Now the question is: How do you get rid of a habit you don't want anymore and replace it with another, in this case, blogging? Well, first you must want to change. Then you must start doing what you need to do for it to become a habit. Do yo follow? If you keep doing an activity long enough, it will grow into your lifestyle and it becomes a habit. For example, if you haven't been blogging for months, then you can start with one blog post and work your way to two, then on to three or maybe even four a week. The idea is to make blogging a part of your lifestyle.

How long does it take to replace an old habit with a new one? Well the best answer comes from Kundalini Yoga teacher Gurutej Khalsa, who's based in LA. She's written about breaking bad habits in her books and practices what she preaches. According to what she had been taught by Yogi Bhajan, it takes 40 days to break an old habit and 90 days to create a new one. In 120 days, the habit becomes part of you. After that, you can work towards becoming a master of the new habit.

So, if you apply this process to getting into the habit of blogging, then you can technically get into posting regularly in just 4 months. Keep that in mind. I know I need to.

Here's a video by Gurutej Khalsa talking about breaking old habits and creating new patterns (habits) that will be beneficial to you.