7 Ways to Stay Motivated With Your Blogging

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This is a guest post by Jimmy Tong. Should you wish to write for this blog, check out the guest post guidelines.

Lye’s note: I am really impressed when my fellow countryman Jimmy send me a guest post on how to blog effectively with a great routine. Jimmy is a regular visitor of this blog and i took the chance to ask him for another guest post. Coincidently, this post is a great follow up to the previous post by Adam. Please support Jimmy by visit his blog or connect with him on any social media sites.

A Privilege from My Fellow Blogger

My fellow countryman, Lye has prompted me to guest post on his blog again. I am honored by this request. Even though I blog about personal development, I still find that the technical knowledge I gain from blogs like his is immensely valuable to my site too.

As such, I hope to contribute a little of my blogging expertise to his site regularly too. Most of my writing will be focus on the psychology to better blogging. I hope you will find these articles useful to keep blogging.

Blogging can be Discouraging at Times

Today I would like to talk about how you can stay motivated with your blogging. Blogging is a long term, little result commitment at the start. The only progress you will see is your increasing blog post and comment count over months of hard work. Main result like money and business do not come overnight. This is where the motivation to stay the course is so crucial.

I like to provide a quote at this point to encourage you if you feel like giving up;

“Rewards only come to those who are willing to ride it out.”

Here are seven ways to stay motivated with your blogging.

Seven Ways to Stay Motivated

1. Blog Your Passion

If you cannot sit down and come out with at least 50 blog post titles, than you better rethink your blogging niche. If you blog your passion you will never run out of ideas to write about. I suggest that you do this exercise every month just to make sure that you are on the right track. Nothing is more futile than wasting 6 months blogging for something you did not believe in or like. Identifying your passion is key.

2. Have an Attitude to Learn from Others

Every blogger from experts to beginners are always learning. When you adopt this form of learning mode, you will reap far more dividends than been focused solely on money. Every blogger offers something unique even on similar subjects. You need to explore every blog with an open mind to get the most out of your blogging. When you realize that you have progressed by learning from others, your motivation will also grow.

3. Take Small Steps of Progress

There are tons of changes and improvements needed to reach your blogging targets. Even ProBloggers did not get to where they are in a short time. But they had a secret that you and I could replicate – take small steps of progress towards your success and targets. Can you implement a new widget today that enhances your blog? Did you comment enough for the day? Have you submitted or planned for a guest post this weekly? Did you share your post on Facebook and Twitter today? Concentrate on small steps on a daily basis and your blogging success will come.

4. Set Milestone Goals

He who fails to plan is planning to fail. Part of planning is to set achievable milestone goals. Set long term yearly goals. Then work backwards to quarterly and monthly goals. Further distill your progress to weekly and daily goals. Once you have these set, just focus on the daily goals and forget the rest for the moment. This should keep you focus for maximum effectiveness and motivation for success. Sometimes looking too far ahead can discourage you often.

When a marathoner runs his race, he does not see the end point, he sees only the next lamp post or check point. This makes it more difficult for him to fall out. Similarly, when you blog, count your next lamp posts as your next post, next comment, next improvement, next series and so on.

5. Guest Post Often

This one single strategy is the key to expanding your reach with your blog. When you guest post correct, you will see your traffic spike. This form of results does wonders to your morale and motivation. Recently, I finally had one guest post featured on TinyBuddha. My regular traffic was less than 100 visits a day before that. Guess what was my traffic after that post? For the next two days, I had more than 1000 visitors to my site. How is that for motivation for blogging?

But guest posting can be tough. You need to make sure your content is some of the best and you have to be prepared to ‘give’ these posts away. But in the end, I think the hard work is worth it when popular bloggers feature you. It shows that they trust you.

6. Write Blog Series

Committing yourself to a series will also force you to be regular and motivated in your blogging. It is very easy to write a post for publishing, but planning an actually writing a good post series requires more effort. The good thing is once your have started, you cannot stop not matter how lazy you become. You have to push through otherwise you will lose regular followers to your series.

7. Start a Blog Diary

When bloggers start their journey, they often forget about themselves in their quest to create content. Learn to document your blogging journey down somewhere. For the first month, what did you do? How many posts did you write and publish? What need widgets did you install? Did some heavy weight bloggers visit your blog? Chronicle all these down. The power of this lies in your reviews. When you look back once in a while when motivation is lacking, reading your own blogging progress will reveal your milestones and goals achieved. That is very motivating.

I am sure there are many more blogging tips to stay motivated. These are seven that I use and find most empowering when it comes to motivating myself.

Have you hit a solid wall in your blogging so far? How did you deal with this depressing period? What are some of your tips to stay motivated? Hey, please know that it is perfectly fine to go through a dry spell in your blogging. The secret is knowing that you can always bounce back with the right attitude and strategies.

Keep blogging…

 Bio

Jimmy is a veteran teacher, coach and education officer in Singapore. He has combined his skills in the education and cosmically charged speaking style with his passion for personal development to become a life coach, speaker, trainer and writer. He writes extensively about personal development at www.mylifearchitects.com. His coaching and personal development training is anchored by his Ace Your PERSONAL Goals framework which sets the foundation for effective and easy to implement personal development skills.

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