Three reasons why Christmas holidays is great for bloggers

Christmas is a time of holiday and cheer and no more so than in Australia.

In countries in the northern hemisphere Christmas lasts only a few days, schools only close for two weeks at the most and generally there is less the feel of a ‘mass holiday’ that exists in Australia.

As you can imagine my first Christmas in Oz caught me by surprise. Offices shut down, trains near empty, roads quiet. There was a distinct whiff in the air of beaches and lazy long hot summer days on the beach.

So as I walked my children home from school today with six weeks of holidays stretching in front of them…I thought about a decision I made a few weeks ago to take four weeks offline – no Facebook, no Twitter, no blogging.

Ive reached the conclusion that the Christmas holidays are great for ( Australian) bloggers for three simple reasons:

1. REASSESS: Christmas is a perfect time to stand back and assess how your blog is developing. Is your blog developing the way you intended when you first launched it? If not what would you like to change? Do you feel you are in control of your blog or it is in control of you?

2. REFLECT: Its a great time to reassess your motivations for blogging. Perhaps you started your blog off as a type of online journal to record your experiences as a stay at home parent and now you are back at work and are finding you aren’t updating the blog as much. How will you adjust your blog to this? Is it better to wind it up or maybe to stand back and just blog less? Christmas can be a time to think about what you want for 2012.

3. REST: It gives you time to just be. This is my favorite. I think the Christmas holidays give a unique time to stand back from the online world, blogging and online friends and spend time with the most important people in our lives – our family and friends and do…well nothing much really. I often find the best ideas and inspirations in all areas of my life happen to me when I’m on holidays!

Do you use the Christmas holidays as a time to rest, reflect and refresh?

(And with that I wish you a beautiful Christmas and New Year. I will be taking a complete break from online until late January. Enjoy your break…. no matter how short or long it is )