You absolutely want blogging success. Or I should say you “desperately” need it. You are committed to get there. You’ve rolled up your sleeves and have dived into action.
You do your best to make it happen. You are willing to sacrifice your sleeping hours, the time you’d spend with your family and time for yourself, ahem, forgetting the very fact that you started this blogging business so that you can
(i) spend more time with your family
(ii) work when you want to work and take breaks when you wanted
(iii) pamper and take good care of yourselves
Whoa! Wait. But what you’re doing is jut the opposite. OK I’d be more than happy for you if all of your “hard work” ended up in the success you wanted.
But hey, that’s also a dream. So what is the point? You are chasing something that you don’t catch at all. And all your time, efforts and even money are wasted.
This is pathetic. This is not supposed to be your situation.
You read success stories of the biggie bloggers. You wonder why YOU are unable to make it – something that any gal or guy like you could do easily.
There’s ONE simple thing I want to put out to you today. And this is it.
Clarity.
Let’s face it. Can you answer this one question >> What do you want to achieve with your business?
Or in other words, what is your blog for and what you want your blog to accomplish for you?
The answer to this question will define YOUR success.
Do you know that the word “success” has different meanings for different people?
For some, earning a specific amount of money every month could mean success. For some others creating a brand around their name and gaining fame plus earning money could mean success.
For some others, “making money” could mean success.
As you can probably guess now, the third definition of success is very vague – its very generic.
So what’s the big deal here? Why should you have a clear and specific goal to succeed? The answer is simple.
When you don’t have a clear goal, you don’t know WHAT you want to achieve, in the first place. Second you don’t know or can’t figure out if you have actually succeeded!
Why? Because you’ve not defined your “success”.
Its THAT simple!
So instead of dreaming about blogging success, here’s what you should do in the first place.
Get clarity. Define YOUR success first. Defining your success helps you identify your goal.
Once you’ve set yourself a goal, it will be easier for you to create an action plan to get there. You can chop your bigger goal into easily achievable steps. You can create a road map to get to your goal.
Now take responsibility and exercise your plan.
This way you can streamline your efforts towards your goal.
So what will happen if you don’t have a blogging goal in place? You think its not a big deal?
I thought so and wasted a few years coz I couldn’t figure out on “what” I need to put my efforts on.
I didn’t know how and where to spend my energy. I worked hard. I had 40 hour work weeks on my blogs (after having my day job).
All that didn’t help really.
Not that I wasn’t sincere or that I didn’t work hard. I did. But I was spending my energy, time and money on stuff that were not actually important or that were not going to make any big change to my business.
Here’s what I’ve got to say: Stop often, and ask yourself this question – Am I working on stuff that will make a difference in my business?
Wait a second, don’t get to the thought that I’m talking about plain money. Money is indeed important and yes to some extent.
But it is not all about money. However, when I said work on stuff that will make a difference in your business, I mean an impact – the bigger picture.
Takeaway
So I guess I made myself clear. Get clarity with your business. Know what you want to achieve with your business. That’s how you could really start working towards attaining business success.
Dreaming is good. It helps visualize things. But getting a clear picture and doing the real work will only help you achieve success!
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Jane helps aspiring bloggers achieve blogging success. Jane mainly encourages her readers to create killer blog content and build responsive email lists. Check out her blog – Problogging Success.
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That’s a really inspiring and great post
I think clarity is very important when it comes to achieving a goal.One should really keep his/her mind open and clear about what he/she want’s to achieve through their efforts.Without a clear vision everything they do will be useless.
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Thanks Abhi! Clarity is everything and it should be the starting point.
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Nice post! Just really enjoyed this post, Thanks for sharing:D
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You’re very welcome Shehu!
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What to write? Really stumbled with your words, can’t get out from that!
Now am clear Jane and hope I read this post at the appropriate time to improve my clarity.
Yes, as you told “defining the success would help to reach the goal”.
Hope am doing the same, but gonna perform with more clear and clarity than before.
Thanks for writing the inspiring post for your readers, keep doing it
@ Atish – Thanks for publishing this exceptional Post for TTW readers.
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Nirmala, so glad you liked the post. Yes of course, success is a very relative term. It differs from person to person and with business to business. Unless we find out what WE exactly want we can’t work for it!
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I got stuck on the line about spending more time with family … and with that, I’ll go down and help my daughter with her homework.
Thanks for the self-reflection post.
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You’re very welcome Leora. Family always comes first.
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Nice post,
First time i visit here, such a inspiring post. i agree with you if u want to get success in blogging forget about full time sleep, whole day fun, goship etc.Just sit in front of lapy and forget other things.
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Thanks for the nice words Nirmala
You really made my day. Yes without defining our own success, we won’t have a clue on what to work on and whether we have succeeded or not!
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Inspiration post and i am very inspired of your post actually i want to start blogging but i have no experience about it. I am not getting. This post is so helpful to make successful of your blog. i must try of your points. i hope its give the +ve results. well thanks for sharing with us.
Glad to be an inspiration Riddi. Good luck with your blogging!
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I think some people who want to get blog success run into the big error of wanting it too fast, having a successful blog doesn’t happen overnight so people need patience too.
Nice blog by the way
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Patience is one of the most crucial factors with blogging and sadly this is one of those things that’s missing in most bloggers!
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Hi Jane Ma’am
Great Share!!
Nice line “defining the success would help to reach the goal”.
thanks for share your Experience!!
Mosam
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You’re very welcome Mosam
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Hi Jane,
Agreed with your points, I think unless you know your long term goal you can’t make any plan to achieve it. And if you don’t have planning you can’t succeed at any cost.
Yup that’s a straightforward point Shailender. Thanks for your comment!
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Jane – Nice to see you here at TTW. Thanks atish for publishing this wonderful post from her.
It is indeed an eye opener for many of us bloggers, who have to set our vision and mission statements clearly and work towards it, rather than comparing other bloggers and feel dejected for not achieving what they have done.
I completely agree that every person’s success criteria will be different and it is important to understand that and make it your priority.
Thanks for this great share.
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Hey Praveen
it is not only important to identify our goal but also give priority to it and work in order to progress towards our goal in the right direction. Most bloggers are lost half way because they don’t prioritize their goals.
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Hi Atish,
Its a fabulous article. You have refreshed up the take on things by defining clarity. Now I understand why I am not getting the success that I wanted and I need to make a more clear goal. and I would invest my time and energy on working towards it. You have truly inspired me.
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That’s the spirit Vicky! Way to go
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Great Post Sir….I want to be also successful
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Awesome post Atish! It really does take a lot of time and you must priortize. If you don’t know what you want (Clairty) you can’t get there and you’ll wonder aimlessly.
You did make your point very clear Atish!
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I think for getting success few things we need:-
Hard work, passion and Able to take risks.
Nice points Jane.
John, yup the “risks” part is really crucial!
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Hey Jane,
Great to see you here at Atish’s place.
You are so right about this and this is something I didn’t have when I started. You can really end up wasting a lot of very valuable time if you aren’t clear on not only where you want your business to go but what you want from your blog.
I know that once I knew what I wanted to achieve from my blog and set things up accordingly, it all started to fall into place. I could have kicked myself for not having done this earlier but I just wasn’t clear on what I wanted nor the direction I wanted to go. I know sometimes that can be hard but with time we’ll all get there.
Great post and great tips. You’re spot on with these girl.
Thanks for the post and hope you both are having a wonderful week.
~Adrienne
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Hi Jane and Atish,
This is an awesome eye-opener post.
Blogging does really take lots of time and without Clarity you will end up wasting lots of time without getting anywhere.
Thanks Jane for such a great post and great tips. Thanks Atish for inviting Jane to do this great post on your blog for all of us.
Be Blessed,
Neamat
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Hi Jane
I agree with your points here and what ever you do family always comes first.
Hey! I am new in blogging line..! can you help me with some ideas about making backlinks..? and y are they useful..? other than leaving comments on blogs..
Hey Tushar,
I think you already are doing good job with your blog(if it is the same as your link). I visited your blog too and I must say…Good collections
Very well done! I totally agree. It took a while for me to commit to my dream but now that I am working towards that, it gives me clarity in making decisions. Thanks for your insight!
Starting out blogging is the hardest part. You have to put in so much effort into getting the first visitors and making sure that everythings working good. However, if you don’t give up, you will reach your success no matter how you define it.
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You provide very productive information about blogging here which is very useful for newbie to starting a fine blogging career. I add few simple point in these to be successful blogger.
1- Work in a schedule on regular basis.
2- Write only that you are expert in and passionate about the topic.
3- Work for quality nor for quantity or money.
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