The past week or so I have seen quite a few blogging friends write on this topic. So, I thought that I would join in.

Blogging takes work. Also, a lot of things attached with blogging takes work. Most people cannot do it all, and do it well. Unless, they learn to manage their goals and priorities correctly.

(Ladies, I am talking to myself below, if this applies to you as well, then that is a bonus)

This is truly a balancing act that is DIFFICULT to conquer, and it is one that I am constantly working on,  e v e r y   d a y. It is impossible to think that a christian, wife, homemaker, mother, friend, daughter, sister, etc… can fulfill all of those wonderful roles well, and also be an excellent blogger and maintain an online presence.

So, where does the balancing come in? You manage your priorities. You have to know what comes first, and manage your tasks according to your priorities.

For example, as Christians, we know the importance of being in God’s Word and spending time in prayer. Do we accomplish these tasks before we blog? Do we wait to even turn on the computer until we have spent time in His presence? Ladies, this is what we need to do! I need to do this…but, there are times when I fail, and the lure of the computer gets to me.

This is why we need to keep our priorities in the front of our minds and pay very close attention to them. We are first called to be Christ-followers, wives, mothers, homemakers, before we are to be bloggers. We need to remember that.

Everything we do involves consuming time, we just need to keep track of where we are spending out time and make sure that the majority of our time is spent of things that come first.

Although, we are doing wonderful things through our blogs, we need to keep in mind that we have a husband, and we have a house, and some of us have children, and they need to come first.

We need to submit our goals and priorities to God, and follow His will. It is a wonderful thing to be involved in blogging and serve God in this manner (I personally love it), however, we need to maintain a balance.

Like I said earlier, really this post is me writing to me. This is something that I am working on balancing and feel like it is very possible to balance it, if we try hard and keep first things first.