It's 11:34 p.m. Monday evening as I pop open the blogging editor for ActiveRain. It's probably a bit later than I should be getting started, but blogging is part of my weekly routine and this is a MUST on my weekly to do list. It's been months since I last wrote an Ask An Ambassador post on a Tuesday, instead preferring to draft a post on Monday evening and use the Scheduler feature to have it publish around 8 a.m. EST. Tuesday.
While my schedule may not be quite as filled with routines as it was when I had to put in my 40+ hour engineering work week, there's still plenty of routine to my day. I'm still putting in 20 hours a week of engineering work, taking care of real estate clients and potential clients, spending a lot of time taking care of our "zoo" (9 Chihuahuas and 13 cats is our current count), and whatever else pops up (e.g. snow storms and snow blowers).
A lot of how my life is lived now has been set up by routines established years ago. Some from my upbringing, some from my Navy time, some from my engineering work, some from real estate. Each aspect brings some influence in how I manage my time and my priorities until things are just automatic, or at least easily adjusted on the fly because the experience is already there.
The benefit of making blogging a part of my daily routine for years and years is when I'm down to just one post a week, I can select an idea, acquire a picture, decide on a title, and sit and type and within 30 minutes have a post I'm willing to share. Sometimes the process flows more easily...tonight I've hacked out several paragraphs, maybe midnight after a full day IS too late to be blogging :)
But bottom line, being willing to make blogging and IDX page creation part of my routine for years now regularly pays off dividends. Relationships have been established in this community. There's a web presence to serve our niches. A bigger digital footprint that non-Rainer agents can use to find us when they're searching for referral agent partners.
We all get to decide what is part of our routine. How we participate in ActiveRain. To blog or not. To comment or not. To enter a multipart monthly challenge or not. Your choice for your routines.
Until next Tuesday, just Ask An Ambassador for help,
Bill & Liz aka BLiz
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