The Simple Key To Keep Motivated Writing On Your Blog
When I did software consulting, I had a client who told me of a quote that stuck with me. It was a quote that motivated him when times were tough, and I’ve found it tremendously useful as well.
But before I introduce it, the reason for mentioning it: as you blog and try to succeed online, time can drag, and success can drag even more. Whether you are building blogs for affiliate income, using a blog to drive traffic to your site for business or sales, or trying to make a name for yourself in ‘blogdom’, there will come a time when you get tired, bored, fed up, upset, or feel any of a thousand other emotions.
It’s not uncommon - just look at the Internet landscape with the many dead blogs scattered around it. Read a few: many start with passion, hope, and the promise of things to come. Often, quite interesting posts begin the blog daily. Then they are daily no longer. Still later, they drop off to weekly. And soon, the blog stalls, with the last blog post forlornly stuck on the main page, like a final ‘SALE’ sign in the window of an abandoned store.
I’m guilty of it, and if you’ve blogged for any length of time, you might be too.
It’s hard - hard to keep the focus day after day, month after month. It’s hard to keep working at something with a promise of success, but (at first) no guarantee.
I personally think blogging is the hardest writing there is, possibly second only to the writing of the Great American Novel, where you write hundreds of pages just hoping someone will read it.
Another post will deal with concrete ways to be sure you’re doing well, but today I just wanted to share with you the quote I received, and I consider truly enriching enough to pass on to you.
It’s a simple one, on persistence:
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933), American President
It’s hard to persist at something, especially when it seems slow in the beginning. But take heart - you aren’t the first person to think this, and there are many people before you who have solved the problem, and found the secret to succeed in everything, including your blog.
Persist.
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