I know I’m not blogging enough on Critical Thoughts. I wondered why. I didn’t get the answers. I absolutely want to keep this blog going. I had to break this bloggers’ block. All that I could do was to seek the advice of a professional consultant to solve this problem for me. The professional consultant Vijayakrishna is a very renowned man in this field and has a history of problem solving, especially that of others. Now, Critical Thoughts becomes his latest project. After a couple of days of study, scrutiny and review of the case, he has come up with the below report.

Project Critical Thoughts

Problem definition: Of late, the client has not been blogging much on Critical Thoughts. What started with many blogs a week had to be reduced one blog a week upon feedback and now the last blog was about a month back. This results in an onslaught from the millions of regular readers and they demand more frequent blogging. Client needs a practical, scalable solution that would put the blog back on track.

Goal statement: To create solutions that would help me blog much more frequently – at least weekly.

Possible causes: (List down all those possible causes that would result in similar situations. This may or may not apply for the stated condition.)

a) Lack of time: The time that’s available for blogging has considerably come down since the client’s daughter started going to school. This may not have to mean that he’s putting in an awful lot of efforts to send her to school everyday. Client’s mid-night awakening behaviour is also undergoing a change which leaves time only during the weekends.

b) Domestic activities: Client does have multiple interests and is pretty active in all his interests such as blogging, gaming, reading, television, socialising and shopping (not of self). Clients has very little control of some of the activities that take bulk of the time. There are too many domestic activities which leaves more sophisticated activities such as blogging down the list.

c) Multiple blogs: Client does have two blogs including this one, the other blog being the more dominant one. Because the other blog is the flagship blog of the client, whatever time is available for blogging acitivity is being spent on that blog.

Possible solutions: (List down all solutions and recommendations that address the causes or help the goal)

a) Short posts: The client himself is a strong proponent of short posts. He can post short blogs with a couple of paragraphs or so. What’s important is the stance of the blogger which would trigger the debate and discussion in the comments area. Short posts are a viable solution.

b) Multimedia posts: The time factor is key when the posts have to be text-based. It is market practice to post blogs with images and vidoes that contain the message that the blogger wants to send across. As we know, a picture speaks a thousand words.

c) Mobile blogging: If the time in front of the computer is a rarity, the client can use his mobile. With a no-limit internet connection and high tech mobile, moblogging is a very practical solution. This would be especially useful during long shopping sessions or prolonged family events.

d) Reclaim time: Client must find ways to reclaim his time so that they can be spent on blogging. For instance, if he appoints a driver for his car, he could reclaim about 2 hours a day that he can spend on blogging while in the car. This would also help him given his driving skills.

Final recommendation: We suggest the client that while he must attempt to reclaim his time by eliminating wastage, he must attempt to write short posts or multimedia posts, and use the mobile phone much more effectively.

This is exactly why we need consultants. They come up with entirely new ideas which we were always aware but were lazy to implement. They help us with these ground breaking solutions that are picked up from our own past history and renew our interest in these ways of resolving the problems.

Critical Thoughts now stands revived.