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Like Springtime Emerging I Will Carry On

Springtime is getting closer and closer. I can feel it in my bones. I can smell the fresh scent creeping into the air. Ahhhh!!! It's almost here. Soon the blossoms will be everywhere scenting the air with their perfume.

It is so tempting at this time of year for me to close up the laptop, put on my walking boots and go exploring on some mountain trails or to walk down by a river. I can feel myself wanting to just take in nature and admire the scenery. My writing chores feel like they are calling me to work outside. I believe it's good advice.

Springtime brings thoughts of spring cleaning, renewal, clearing extra baggage to make room for the new experiences that it promises to bring. Talking about spring cleaning and fresh air reminds me that it is time to make those spring time clean up plans, in business, at home, in your life and for your blogs. So follow me as I perform my spring cleaning.

What is the first step in a spring cleaning plan?

• Review your work load and your blogs. In my case, that involves about fifty different sites and dozens of projects.
• As you go through your blog(s) or website(s) or project(s), make a list of your observations.
• Write down every unfinished project that you find. Make a decision this spring whether you still want to complete the project or if you want to strike it from your planning sheet. Voila! Spring cleaning begins at this point. Your load is already getting lighter.
• While reviewing your blogs, or website or articles take notice if there are any misspelled words or sentences that need rewriting. Look for incomplete thoughts.
• If you have ideas for follow up posts based on what your blog content already contains, then begin a list and start planning those posts. A good way that I have found is to write an outline in a word document. Save this in a file. Start brainstorming right in your blog and save these drafts. The posts can be developed as your ideas flow. I like to write titles and a few bullet points or just brainstorm whatever ideas come to mind on the topic. I don't bother to format or worry about sentence and paragraph structure at this point. Just let it flow.
• It is okay to brainstorm a dozen drafts in one blog if you are going through the spring cleaning process and become inspired about follow up posts. It is a good idea, in fact. Hey, you can brainstorm 12 or 100 posts this way by choosing a title and just listing what comes to mind. These posts can be published over time in whatever order you decide is good. You'll be making headway for a great year of staying on top of your blog to keep it up to date. Hey, that advice is resounding back to me.
  
• Come up with themes for your blogs if you don't already have it well defined.
• Edit and rewrite posts that you intended to come back to later.
• Add some links and pictures in your posts that seem a little "empty" or just "missing something".
• If you cancel a project or projects that you previously announced on your blog, now is a good time to write a new announcement to let those faithful readers know.
• Update your sidebar. Organize items and remove those excess videos and photos to make room for a fresh look for your blog this year. You can store all these items on an archive post and place the link in the sidebar. Call it something like "blog past" in the spirit of the ghost of Christmas past. Just an idea. You'll come up with a good name for this link!

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