There are many many ways to motivate yourself to blog. These are actual ways that you can actually motivate yourself to blog. Rest assured no lengthy posts or too much elaborating of each points.
- Visit a professional blog related to your niche that is way ahead of yours in terms of content, income revenue and status.
- Join a blog membership course that teaches you how to blog.
- Watch videos of great bloggers success stories that have made it to the top.
- Get one on one teaching from a blog guru/pro.
- Get the blog guru/pro to push you to further heights of success and track your progress!
- Get your blog site reviewed by a guru or someone who is not really a guru but way ahead of you.
- Find a good blogging buddy to exchange ideas. Having someone who has the same interest as you can help you blog easier
- Setup a blogging editorial team to brainstorm ideas on blogging.
- Work hard on your blog to see positive results i.e search engine rankings, traffic, RSS subscriptions (further motivates to do more).
- Set a target to complete a certain amount of post over a period of time i.e 30posts per month, 600 posts per year etc.
- Get featured on social networking sites.
- Get featured on blog directories.
- Get featured on web directories.
- Getting articles published on article directories.
- Read a good book on blogging.
- Read a good book on self motivation.
- Get a fridge magnet with motivational quotes to help you blog.
- Get a sticky, paste it on a wall or anywhere and write plenty of motivational quotes that you can read and see every day.
- Visualize yourself in 3-5 years time down the road as one of the most successful bloggers around (3-5 yrs is an arbitrary number, varies depending on your effort and capabilities).
- Classical or soothing music kick starts your creative juices flowing and thus motivates you!
- Visit blog forums and ask question about blogging and how to motivate yourself.
- Request to guest blog for another blog (usually a better blog than yours)
- Outsourcing; freelance blogger, you can’t do it all by yourself, can you??
- Get someone to guest blog for you
- Don’t blog so often if you can’t, otherwise go to point no. 23
- Treat yourself (positive reinforcement) after achieving something in your blog!
- Someone to pat your back on a job well done on your blog.
I’m sure there are other ways to motivate yourself to blog. This is an open discussion for everyone who reads this. Feel free to add No.28,29 and so forth!
To Your Success,
Bryan Wong YH
Related articles on Blogging:
- How to Keep Yourself Motivated While Blogging (shoutmeloud.com)
- Smarter Ways to Get Content Ideas for B2B Blogs (toprankblog.com)
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I’m sure there are other ways to motivate yourself to blog. This is an open discussion for everyone who reads this. Feel free to add No.28,29 and so forth!
Having a blogging buddy has helped me.