Personal Blogging Is Supposed To Be Fun

Mary powered up her laptop computer; it had Linux Mint on it. She turned it on to look for security and feature updates.

One and a half minutes after, she logged into her WordPress account. “I am going to write a blog post today,” she said with a smile on her face.

Mary was one of those women who loved blogging. She could not care about the number of views her blog posts received, the number of followers she had or how many likes that her blog posts received. All Mary cared about was having as much fun with her blog while she was logged in.

Mary also knew that having a Linux Mint-powered laptop computer made her computing tasks easier and her computer never froze while she was writing a blog post.

The greedy RAM-eating Block Editor was no match for her laptop computer and she was able to type quickly without Grammarly lagging along.

Her husband, James, walked into the study room with two cups of tea in his hands; one for his wife, Mary, and one for himself. “What are you writing about today?” he asked while handing her the cup of tea.

Mary chuckled loudly and said, “10 reasons to stay away from Windows 11.”

James laughed and said, “That sounds as though it is going to be a huge hit on WordPress.” He kissed her on her soft, red-coloured lips and said, “I will leave you to write in peace, my love,” and he exited the room.

The Electronic Device That You Blog On Can Set The Mood

Yes, my friend, the electronic device that you blog on can set the mood.

And, why is that so?

Because if your laptop computer, desktop computer, tablet computer or smartphone has technical issues from the beginning, it is going to affect your mindset (You will be angry because your electronic device is not working well).

Besides, it is difficult to have a great time blogging if the electronic device that you blog on is malfunctioning.

When you switch on your electronic device to blog, you should be focused on blogging and not have your attention taken away by the horrible state that your electronic device is in.

Personal blogging will be fun if you blog using an electronic device that works well (And, that is the reason why Mary uses Linux on her laptop computer).

Having The Full Support Of Your Significant Other Helps

Do you know that there are husbands who believe that their wives are wasting precious time blogging?

Those husbands would prefer that their wives spend all of their time:

• Cleaning the house.
• Taking care of the children.
• Cooking food for the family.
• Doing the laundry.
• Ironing their work clothing that they are going to wear for the entire workweek.

Little do these husbands know, that their wives can do all of those things and still find the time for writing and publishing blog posts.

A Canadian friend of mine used to publish makeup tutorials on her blog (Her husband was not pleased when he found out).

There was a bit of proverbial tug of war taking place between her and her husband in the beginning.

He eventually saw things her way and bought her a domain to house her blog on.

A wife is not going to feel one hundred percent comfortable blogging when she knows in the back of her mind, that her husband disapproves of such actions.

Therefore, she can and will have fun with her personal blog when she has the full support of her husband (Much in the same way, that Mary had the full support of her husband, James).

It Is Impossible To Have Fun With Your Personal Blog If You Are Deeply Worried About What Other People Think Of You

The sad truth is that there are personal bloggers who are deeply worried about how people will perceive their blog posts (As a result of their fear, they post very little or nothing at all on their blogs).

If you are one of those bloggers who are always worried about what other people think of you, my article, Stop Worrying About What Other Bloggers Think Of You, will emancipate you from that unproductive mindset.

Dear friend, it is your personal blog (Which gives you the right to publish the things that are of importance to you on it).

Therefore, you should not be overly concerned about what other people think of you and your blog posts.

Besides, it is impossible to have fun with your personal blog when you are overly concerned about what other people think of you and your blog posts.

There Is No Need For You To Overcomplicate Things

There is a small percentage of personal bloggers who overcomplicate things by:

• Worrying about SEO.
• Worrying about using the right WordPress plugins.
• Worrying about knowing the best time to publish their blog posts.

Personal blogging used to be simple in the good old days.

Today, people are going through a lot of trouble to make sure that their personal blogs are so-called perfect.

For the record, you are free to worry about SEO if you want to, but it takes the fun away from personal blogging.

However, if you are hell-bent on implementing SEO techniques on your personal blog, I recommend reading Phoebe’s article, 7 Useful Tips to Optimize WordPress SEO without Plugins.

If you are a blogger on the free WordPress.com plan, you will not have access to plugins (You will have to upgrade your WordPress.com plan in order to gain access to plugins).

Those personal bloggers that use the self-hosted version of WordPress (WordPress.org) will have full access to plugins from day one.

Worrying about the best time to publish blog posts is a bit useless because people read blog posts at a time that is most convenient for them.

Dear friend, you are guaranteed to have fun with your personal blog by keeping things simple.

Stop Being Overly Concerned About Views, Followers And Likes

Many personal bloggers have been mesmerized by views, followers and likes.

Do you remember Mary from the introduction of this blog post?

Of course, you do!

Mary was not caught up with views, followers and likes. All she was concerned about was having fun while she was logged in to her WordPress account.

Guess what? You can do the same.

The truth is that the number of incoming views to your blog will fluctuate (It will be low at times and high at other times).

In regards to followers, there will be a bunch of people who will follow your blog and the same thing applies to people unfollowing your blog.

And, likes can mean nothing; such as in the case of people pressing the Like button without ever reading your blog posts.

In most instances, personal bloggers waste a lot of their mental energy worrying about useless things or things that they have no control over.

The Bottom Line

Personal bloggers can make blogging fun by:

• Seeing to it that the electronic device that they use for blogging purposes work well.
• Having the full support of their significant other.
• Refusing to be deeply worried about what other people think of their blog.
• Keeping things as simple as they can be.
• Not being overly concerned about views, followers and likes.

Dear friend, you must never forget that personal blogging is supposed to be fun (So, do the things that make personal blogging a fun-filled activity and refuse to do the things that steal the fun away from personal blogging).