Blogging became somewhat of an addiction for me a few years ago. I guess it’s always been in my blood. Starting new projects. That whole entrepreneurial spirit.

The problem is that, especially with time consuming projects like blogs or businesses, when you get too many going at the same time, you lose the ability to work on each individual project as if it were the only one you have. Hence the need for time management.

Managing time is one of the single most important skills a person can have these days. If you’ve been to college, you know just how important it is. If you’ve found yourself balancing two jobs just to have enough money to live, you know just how important it is. Because proper time management can either make or break you, you have to be on top of how much time you are spending here or there. Anything else and you’re going to have problems keeping up with the crowd.

Here are some of the best ways to balance your time, especially if you have multiple blogs.

• Take Control of Your Time: Realize that you don’t have to do everything every single day. Make specific time for yourself to do all of that day’s or that week’s work. During that time, don’t do anything else. Put distractions aside so you can work specifically on exactly what you need to do. It’s the best way to make sure that your projects get done.
• Focus on a Different Blog Each Day: As long as you don’t have more than seven blogs under your belt, you should try focusing on a different blog each day. That way you allow yourself to get into the mood of your blog, which is great if your multiple blogs happen to be on different topics. Feel free, though, to do work on any of your blogs on the same day if your sites are all occupying the same or similar niches.
• Take Breaks: Unless you’re some kind of blogging machine or the Man of Steel, you need to take breaks from time to time. While you may think that this is a poor way to manage your time, consider that working all the time will certainly burn you out–and there is nothing like being burned out to really put a damper on the rest of the work you do that day. Don’t overwork yourself and you’ll actually become more productive.
• SEO, SEO, SEO: If you just can’t handle the pressure and you miss a day or two, rest assured that your blog won’t go unnoticed just because you’re not flooding it with new content. That’s the role that Search Engine Optimization plays. Take some time (preferably when you start blogging), find your keywords, build your backlinks, and watch as the search engine traffic flows in even on days you weren’t able to muster the energy to post.
• Take a Full Day Off Every Week: Once again, this seems to fly in the face of productivity. Taking a day off is not exactly a good way to advance the status of your blogs–but neither is working so hard that you burn yourself out and never feel like blogging again. You need some rest. You deserve some rest. So give yourself a day each week to not think about blogging. Check your stats if you like, but don’t even think about writing a post.
• Know When to Break From a Blog That is Acting More Like an Anchor: If you’re like me and you’ve managed to get yourself more blogs than you can handle, consider ditching one. That’s right, just don’t post on it anymore. Leave the ads up (someone still may click on them), but don’t post on it anymore. Don’t check the stats. Just leave it be so that you can direct your attention to other, more successful blogs that you’re more passionate about.