Have I got a treat for you today. Although this isn’t the first guest post on Blogging Without A Blog (BWAB), it’s the first time I’m using a “substitute teacher”.
Two weeks ago when I was buried in work from my paying job and blogging was taking a back seat, Avani emailed me and offered her help. Although I am one who normally tries to do it all, I accepted Avani’s offer and she agreed to try her hand at teaching.
Let’s get started.
Take your seats, please.
Avani, the floor is yours.

Hello everyone. Thank you for the warm welcome. It’s a pleasure to be here.
As you can see by the picture I’ve put up on the board, my lesson will center around procrastination.
It starts with a short story.
I had an amazing time this week. We (me and my hubby) made a list of all one-time activities which we have been postponing for someday and decided to take at least one activity off the list everyday (like organizing cabinets, updating our expense file, making calls to family and friends, some documentation etc) .
As we found ourselves happily patting each others back at amount of work we finished after a week, I started wondering how can I use this experience in blogging.
Today’s Lesson
When I started to blog, I took a deep dive into reading blogging related sites like Darren Rowse’s Problogger and Yaro Starak’s Entrepreneurs Journey. I took notes and made multiple lists – a list for coding activities, a list for networking activities etc. For the first few weeks, I diligently attempted to check everything off the list.
And then, I got lost in the sea of posts, comments, reading other blogs, commenting on them and of course, how can I forget stats. The amount of work these five activities represent and the amount of time they took, became my reason to not to do any additional tasks (I guess this is the reason why sometimes I feel that my blog has reached a plateau. Same activities = same results.).
I made a list of activities other than these five on which I have been procrastinating. I plan to take one off every week depending upon how much time this would take. Adding meta-tags, setting correct categories and tagging top the list.
In order to ensure that this does not happen again, I plan to list out everything that I procrastinate on and add star to everything that is a repeat in a weekly review. This way, those activities which are most procrastinated, will stand out and become high priority.
Today’s Assignment
What are the blogging activities you procrastinate on all the time?
Do you plan to do these activities anytime soon? If not, could they be delegated to someone else or take them off the list?
What’s your plan to finish off these activities?
That ties up today’s assignment.
Let’s open this subject for discussion. Your answers, additional questions and comments are welcome.
Barbara, I see you raised your hand. What would you like to share?
This post is by Avani Mehta. She maintains a personal development blog at Avani-Mehta. You can subscribe to her blog by RSS or Email.
Photo Credit: Wanda G’s photostream








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