The Word of mAn[S]o0r

Every so often, i fall in the rut of not blogging. Its not my fault, for the most part, since life is giving me unpredictable twists and turns every so often. But i am going to solve it.

The first step in solving any problem, is actually figuring out what the problem is in the first place. Below, i present an analysis of what my biggest challenges are for blogging here.

1. Too much reading
2. Posting on Metblogs
3. Office work & increased responsibilities
4. Social life
5. Sleep (or rather a state of being unresponsive to stimuli, whether i am awake or not)

Elaborating on each point,

Too much reading
I follow a number of blogs on a daily basis, though over time most of them have become professional or business blogs rather than personal ones. My Google reader feed has over 100 feeds, and in addition, i check out news feeds from Google news & Digg, other blogs from Sphere, IceRocket and Google blogsearch and keep up with a plethora of emails in my inbox. Also, since we have a commenting policy on KMB, a good amount of time is devoted to reading each comment made on my posts, and then editing, moderating them as necessary. Thankfully though, our readers are learning the power of remaining civil and on-topic, so that is mostly just a reading exercise.

Posting on Metblogs
Since a lot of what i follow in the news relates to karachi, the time i have for blogging is then devoted to metblog posts. Also, our team of authors is very active on emails, so reading and replying to them also takes up quite a bit of time.

Office work and increased responsibilities
One of the best things about this job was the work-load. I normally had 200% of the time needed to get jobs done, which gave me ample time to read, write and comment. Not anymore. Following a recent promotion at work (yes, will post on that soon too), i have been given additional responsibilities and then volunteered for some more as well. So now, i have around 80% time to complete tasks which is seriously impeding my ability to read and write.

Social life
Ever since batool entered my life, its been a constant whirlwind. So much so, that every day there’s something new we’re doing, some event we’re attending, social calls on people we know (which is something i never did previously) as well as shopping (who said marrying was easy, more to follow on that). Yesterday was the first day in quite sometime i stayed in and she went out, and realized i missed being with her and going out with her. I am not ashamed to admit, i was a bit sad about that, and will not let that happen again. Side effect of having a social life? Not having enough time to be online when im home, so much so, that i login from home once or twice a week only.

Sleep
Not sleeping enough and not having a schedule to follow plays havoc on a lot of aspects of life. I resisted it till i could, but now realize that i need to have that consistency if i am to work. What happens now is that i spend a lot of time in a state of semi-consciousness, where tiredness keeps me from being productive but sheer ‘zid’ keeps me from resting (and exercising too :p) so im not fresh. Again, seriously eats into my reading, writing habit.

Next step? Tackling each problem and taking them head on! Yea baby! Mansoor is back and he’s going to rock your world!

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