Don't Hold It Hostage
Whatever activity we do, I find that if we're doing it to get something out of it, where we will give it up when we don't get that something out of it, we're holding it hostage, and it won't work properly.
I've been doing 'yoga' - various asanas and practices - for quite a while now, some for about 100 days and more consecutively, and I find that whenever I make the practice feel like it is negotiable, it doesn't work.
Same with blogging. The reason I have been blogging irregularly is because it felt more work than I what I was getting out of it. Which conclusion ignores why I started to begin with. I started blogging not because I had too much knowledge which needed a channel, but because the blog is a tool of organizing oneself, as learned from Seth Godin's advice. But if I give it up because it's not doing what I thought it would, that means it was never going to work to begin with - I was holding it hostage. But if I assure the blog that it will be taken care of for eternity, suddenly the pressure of perfection is off. The "relationship" is at ease.
Whatever activity we're doing, the activity has a "being". If we try to exploit this being, it will qualify as abuse and this "being" will withdraw, like an actual living being. If we marry it instead, till dead does us apart, it will reap something which could never have been pursued.