Stay healthy, for the sake of your business [BT broadband office]

Stay healthy, for the sake of your business

Posted 7 April 2008 at 6:29PM by Ian Betteridge in Business blogging

There's nothing like a story about blogging to get bloggers talking in an animated fashion. So it's perhaps no surprise that the most talked about story of the past seven days is the New York Times' post on writers who "blog till they drop".

The gist of the story is that bloggers, particularly popular ones, live a 24/7 life where commenting at any time of the day or night is the rule, not the exception. They never switch off - and their health suffers for it.

There's no doubt that the working practices of some professional bloggers aren't exactly healthy. Getting five hours sleep per night, spending your entire life at a keyboard, and skipping meals is a great way to poor health.

But claiming this is in any way unique to blogging, or in fact to the media, is stretching the point. Far too many people live a very similar lifestyle, including a lot of small business people. For many owner-managers, that combination of late nights, little exercise and poor diet will be all-too-familiar.

If there's a lesson to be learned from the New York Times story, it's that everyone who leads a fast-paced lifestyle needs to learn to slow down a little. Driving yourself into a heart attack isn't going to do you or you company any good.

Tags: health

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Comments

1. At April 8, 2008 5:18 PM, John Mc wrote:

I agree that the story is making a mountain out of the proverbial, but may have spotted a bug in your blogging engine too. 'As 14 days have passed, trackback is now closed for this entry' ... despite it being dated yesterday!

2. At April 8, 2008 6:40 PM, Derek Hemphill wrote:

Hi John - thanks for pointing that out. I'll get our technical bods to have a look and see what the problem is.

3. At April 9, 2008 2:49 PM, Chris Sabin wrote:

People who need to blog their life 24/7 should probably be sectioned anyway. As you pointed out its unhealthy and quite disturbing that people feel the need to write about their life that often.

Even if i was paid to blog i wouldnt do it to such stupid lengths. In fact would anyone like to offer me a job blogging? :)

4. At April 9, 2008 11:30 PM, james wrote:

Lets take a look at the other side of this. Many people lead a fast-paced lifestyle (The body gets used to working at a fast rate) and they then look forward to retirement. Retirement arrives and they just sit back and do very little - Then die. This happened to quite a few that I once worked with. I retired 14 years ago and have never stopped since. Working hard keeps the Brain and Body active.

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