I know of a lot of people who have the attitude that one should live life as if it was your last day. This seems to be so for many of the young of today and I think it could be a great mistake for the majority of them. My father’s opinion was the exact opposite, that a person should work his butt off whilst he was young and strong making sure that he set himself up for retirement.

I can see now how my father had the right attitude as he is living quite comfortably while a lot of others his age are struggling to make ends meet. Fortunately for me he passed on his values to his children. We were taught to make the best of our youth in regards to work and finances. We would never buy something we could not afford and would never throw money away just for the sake of keeping up with the guy next door. If we were earning more than we needed then we would keep it for a rainy day, and if we were lucky enough that the pile of money would grow, then we would look for wise investments.

I was wondering how the above example may have a direct analogical representation for a blogger and the first example that came to mind was in the amount of posts per day that a blogger may decide to actually post. I’ve noticed how some bloggers may post several posts per day and I just thought that it would probably be better to stagger them over a period of time. This is very easy to do for the WordPress blogger as it has a built in feature where you can post date each post.

I know that I have a limited amount of time that I allocate to myself to read other blogger’s posts and to respond to them. Therefore those bloggers who do several posts per day usually find that the majority of posts will largely go unnoticed, at least as far as I am concerned. It seems that the logical alternative would be to save these posts as drafts, sort of banking them, ready for later publication. This would have the added advantage of being able to proof read them properly at a later date making sure that upon publication, they are the best that they can be.

Another advantage of saving them for a rainy day, so to speak, is that they will be available for publication in emergencies when your blog would otherwise lie dormant while you handle whatever event has arisen in your life.