I have posted 27 blogs so far this month, and this will be my 28th.
This is my second busiest, or as I would prefer to call it “most productive”, month after February 2013 when I wrote 35 posts all of them a minimum of 300 words.
However for all those aspiring bloggers out there who aspire to be successful (not that I am amazingly successful….yet) my advice to them is that there is no secret or short cut besides hard work. That hard work entails regularity in blogging.
Regularity becomes normal…irregularity becomes abnormal.
Whenever you do something at first, it is a bit difficult or strange, maybe some discomfort is involved, some exertion. However the more you do it the less difficult it becomes until it becomes very easy and then….until it may even become strange if you don’t do it. This is what I have found.
In the past there would be months where I did not blog at all, so for example from August 28 to December 17th last year I did not blog at all. This did not seem particularly strange as I was doing other things.
NOW HOWEVER…
if I don’t blog for even a day, I feel strange as if I have neglected something.
This is evidence of the power of habit, the power of regularity, the power of doing something so frequently that it becomes normal and perhaps even strange or painful if you don’t do it.
Regular, daily blogging with good content is what will get your blog to be read by tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands (not yet at that stage, just over 118,000 hits so far) or even millions.
What’s the big deal?
“Hey, what’s all the fuss and big deal about blogging?” you may ask. “Surely it’s just a bit of fun”. Yes you are totally right. However though it can be a personal outlet for people to share their feelings and experiences, it can also be something which helps the average Joe, the small guy compete in an ever more increasingly competitive world. We live in a world where we may no longer be able to be so complacent about getting money all the time from regular jobs, and will need our own space in the cyber-world to promote ourselves and what we do. There are many bloggers out there who get more visitors than websites of small or even medium-sized companies, showing the power of the web in allowing you to access and spread your message to readers all over the world.
Later in the future when my site hopefully has millions of visitors (now it has 118,000 hits) I will point back to this article to stress the importance of hard work and regularity in getting millions of people to read your blog.
Have a great day everybody and to all you bloggers out there, keep on having fun and keep on blogging!
– Jahan