Reignite Your Passion for Blogging

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Writing content and promoting your blog several times a week, every week can take its toll, especially when success takes time and patience to achieve. Many bloggers begin to lose interest. As their enthusiasm wanes, they may be stricken with the dreaded blogger’s block, allowing their post frequency to decline. Before you know it, the blog has died of disinterest and neglect. It’s a story told around the blogosphere time and again.
Don’t let it be the story of your blog! Often, with a little effort, you can reignite the same passion you felt when you first hit that “Post” button.
Recognize your blog’s growth. Stop and compare where your blog is now to where it was a month or a year ago. You might be amazed by just how much it’s grown. How many more posts have you written? How much more money are you making? How much has your traffic or readership grown? Whatever your metric of success, you can go back and see just how far you’ve come.
Celebrate the little victories. Maybe one of your posts is showing up in Google or Digg. Maybe you’ve gotten a new link or trackback. Maybe you’ve got a good conversation going in your comments. Whatever it is, take a moment to appreciate your success, however small. Remember, big successes are built on little ones.
Set a new goal. Whenever you’re inspired by a success, don’t become complacent. Look at it as a stepping stone by setting an even higher goal. Earned $100 this month? Put your effort into earning $120 next month. Are 500 readers subscribed to your feed? Try to boost that to 600. The only limits to your blog’s success are self-imposed.