Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Is blogging a form of unproductive procrastination?

I should really be working on refining my resume and submitting it for job hunting purposes. Instead I've been cleaning my apartment, playing sudoku, and trying to maintain this yoga blog, where many of the entries aren't even about yoga. If I were an actual yoga teacher, I would shut down this blog and start up something more professional looking, remove all the self-pity bits and complaints about my life, maintaining only inspirational sayings and informational bits about yoga. Such a yoga blog would be beneficial to me if I were to pursue yoga as a career. However, at this moment I am not considering to pursue a career teaching yoga. So.... is my urge to keep pumping out blog entries (many of them end up being totally unrelated to yoga) completely irrational and a total waste of time?

So far, my blog entries have often being non-coherent. Sometimes they are in the form of a diary, journaling about the day's yoga practice and other happenings. Sometimes I try to discuss a topic and often go astray and end up talking about things completely unrelated to the original topic. Sometimes I start blogging about an idea I wish to share with the blogosphere, but half way through I run out of steam and can't complete the entry (many of such entries sit in my "drafts" folder). I can't help but think that, if I have so much trouble writing light pieces about distinct, coherent yoga topics, how am I going to survive in the professional world, where I would need to submit reports/documents about whatever it is I am working on, which would also need to be coherent, expressive, and persuasive?

For this reason, I believe my blog entries are not a total waste of time. I am working on my written communication skills that may be useful towards my future career, whatever that may be. In case you're wondering WTF am I trying to say, well, I spent the whole day writing a blog entry but it read like I was brainstorming 5 topics all at once rather than producing one piece of writing. I am feeling guilty I spent so much time blogging instead of working on my resume.

This is me trying to justify the usage of my unemployed hours.

6 comments:

  1. Blogging could be a form of unproductive procrastination. I probably do it (procrastination by blogging) more often than I care to admit :-) But I also often find that blogging helps me to express myself better in real-time. I guess writing in short declarative sentences usually translates into talking into shorter sentences, which help one to come across more clearly. So there are tangible benefits to blogging. :-)

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    1. That's interesting that you find blogging helps with your real-life communications, Nobel. I find blogging helps with my regular writing, since I don't get to write much otherwise. I also get feedback from cyber audience like you, which is nice :) So thanks!

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  2. How lucky to have the luxury of procrastinating. My funding ended the day I defended. Ditto all my colleagues.

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    1. I am indeed very lucky situation-wise, but I notice that I still suffer from unnecessary anxiety attacks even though I currently have no responsibilities, deadlines, or immediate financial struggles. That's something for me to be concerned about.

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  3. I think blogging is productive in many ways. Years later you may want to look back on your thoughts and feelings and see where you have come from and where you have went since blogging. Also, blogging develops your writing skills and allows you to formulate new thoughts. There are much worse ways one could procrastinate.

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    1. Thanks Jryad. That's how I view it too deep down inside :)

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