I have talked about my goals for this blog. This is mainly to help people in finding their way in blogging, to provide blogging tips and resources for them to smoothen their blogging journey. Today i would like to touch on why settings goals is essential to your blog growth.
Some people may be following the laws and rules yet they find that success is a distance away from them. While there are others who maybe easy going yet they are always successful in whatever things they do. Which of the group do you belong to? Do you need to do something different to achieve success? Whichever you belong to, it’s important to start setting goals.
Why is setting goals essential to your blog growth?
First of all, it represent the vision you have towards your blog and how the blog turns about in the future. By having goals, it allows you to monitor your progress whether it’s going up or down. It also allows you to plan your schedule systematically to move toward your goals. Your goals should be realistic and achievable. It allows you to do the activities and put your plan into practice to achieve the goals you have set. You need to bear in mind that in order to reach the goals, you need to act accordingly to your goals. Else it will be in vain if you do not put in efforts in reaching them. Goals can be big or small. Bigger goals may take more time while smaller goals can be achieved in a shorter time frame.
How do you achieve your goals?
There are a few ways to hasten in achieving your goals:
- Upgrade your skills. Be it in you want an improved design, improve your writing or any other skills which you think you are lacking of, if that means you need to purchase an ebook or learn from somebody who is more expert than you, go ahead and learn that. You need to learn in order to meet your goals.
- You need to think strategically. By thinking strategically, you learn to be more productive. Focus on your activities according to your goals will see you getting a bigger result with smaller effort if you start producing productivity. That would mean lesser time spend on a task and allows you to maximize the results.
- You need to act based on the goals you have. Set your mind properly in reaching your goals. Learn to take risk but without compromise on your goals. By taking risk, you learn to accept new changes and challenges which will benefit you in the long run.
Why do you need to set goals?
You may be thinking why is there a need to set your goals since you are not failing with your blog. Setting goals does not mean that you are always suffering from a failure. Setting goals is a acknowledgement of your limitations and a understanding that you need to work your way up to success.
What if one of your goals is unachievable?
You need to understand that there are goals which you may not be able to achieve at times. If that really happens, try to seek for help before you give up. Look for a fellow blogger who is someone knowledgeable in that field and one who is willing to help out.
Wrap up
Goals are set for your benefits. You need to have a proper mind-set to work towards your goals. Try to avoid any distractions that comes your way. Focus on things that work and start discarding those that don’t. Once you have achieved your goals, success will be tasted and i guarantee you that it will be the sweetest thing that you ever have.
Share your thoughts
By now you should have some goals for your blog. Do you encounter any difficulty in achieving them? What did you do to overcome them? Do you actually make any investments or seek any bloggers help in reaching your goals? Please kindly share with us your thoughts.
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Hi Lye,
Excellent advice, especially the piece about seeking help before you give up.
Having a goal set in the mind lets you know when you’ve strayed. Without a vision you have no mental compass.
Thanks for sharing buddy
Ryan Biddulph
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Hi Ryan,
You are most welcome. You are absolutely right. Having a goal will keep you focus and act to your plans accordingly. I like your sentence “Without a vision you have no mental compass”
Thanks for the comments and talk to you soon.
Hi Lye
Sensational post, bro. I really liked and can relate to the section on upgrading your skills. This is very important for us to move forward and become better in anything we do, not just blogging.
Thanks for sharing
Michael
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Hi Michael,
Thanks for your support as always bro. It’s impossible for us to know everything so we need to learn at times. Searching for information or learn from somebody who is better.
I have set small achievable goals for my blog at the moment which are mainly short-term goals. There are some tough goals too, but they are long-term. I mainly concentrate on he short-term goals but I keep an eye on the harder goals too.
Having goals definitely help to gauge the progress of the blog, without which I will like be a lost traveler.
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Hi Sourav,
Nice to hear that. Hopefully all your goals will be achieved according to your plans.
Thanks for visiting and the comments.
Great post man! Setting goals is very important to ones future! Seeking for help from fellow bloggers or the other world will hasten up success and the main key someone should avoid is DISTRACTION. thanks man keep d gud work up.
Hi Samuel,
Focus is something that we need when blogging else we will not get our work done as schedule. Thanks for the comments and talk to you soon.
Really great post Lee,
Setting goals for your blog is really very important. I would have failed myself and my blog if not for my goals, but now, I am getting things done due to having the right type of goals.
Thanks a lot for the great post,
-Onibalusi
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Hi Oni
I think you have written one point that i like. Having right type of goals is also important. If the goals are unrealistic, then you are going to stress yourself if you can’t reach it.
I need to start setting goals, I keep telling myself that I’m going to set goals but each time I do, I never have like a *reminder* of my goals, so it’s a little hard. I guess in the future I’m going to start setting reasonable goals.
Regards
Karl
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Hi Karl,
It’s good that you decide to set yourselves some goals as it is a motivation factor for you to monitor your blog progress. Thanks for visiting and talk to you soon.
Gret post Lye.
I think it is also important to remember the differences between goals and objectives.
Also make sure you are accountable when you set the goals – good point
Awesome, and well done for making Abisheks little list too
Hi Alex,
Thanks for visiting and the comments.I really appreciate it. I had downloaded your ebook on the keyword resources and i must say it’s a great read for me.
I missed out on Abishek’s list this year, Will work hard to get into that in future
Without having a goal in your mind, you never going to succeed in anything. I hope this will suit blogging too.
Thanks for sharing an useful Post.
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Hi Sathish,
Whether it’s online or offline, we need to set certain goals to help us progress and act according to plan. I hope you have some goals for your blog too.
Setting goal for your blog is good thing, but a goal without any plan is just a wish.. so planning for them is important first.. Thanks for refreshing article..
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Hi Viral,
Good point, take action according to plan schedule will definitely help to achieve goals faster.
Thanks for sharing.Talk soon.
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Setting goals and executing a well laid plan always leads to success. Also, as you say, setting goals doesn’t mean we’ve never achieved success in life. Both life and work would become dull without goals in life.
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