I’m sure you’ve heard how regimented some professional bloggers are and wished you could be like that too. Then maybe your blog can start earning some big bucks too. Or is that just me? Oh well.

Money sure can alter your perceptions especially when something that you used to do for free just because you like it starts making you some hard cold cash. You can get downright obsessive tracking the quickest way to make that buck. You start sweating when the money doesn’t flow in as fast as you’d like.

OK, I’ll quit with the YOU stuff and admit, it’s ME, I and MYSELF.

I can’t believe I was starting to get emotional when my adSense earnings were not up to my expectations. I was spending way too much time obsessing about my blogs, how to promote them to gain more readership, to earn more money from ads and to earn more from sponsored posts.

Then I read how someone died from stressing over blogging. If you’re a blogger I’m sure you’ve heard of that news.

This past week, I had to make myself step back and exhale. I actually focused on other things at work and at home besides blogging. Went to the movies with my girls and actually cooked up some new dishes in our kitchen. Sure, once in a while that nagging to blog or check stats would creep in, but I I tried my hardest to ignore it. I tried not to stress as I watched my PayPal balance dwindle. I tried not to watch it all. And I breathed. Deep cleansing breaths to remind myself blogging is not all there is.

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