I am sure by now many people are asking each other what their resolutions are for next year. What a joke. Resolutions are made only because of peer pressure. Wanting to be thought of as one of the gang, we all have fallen for this in the past. Well today I am suggesting to you that you give up the act of setting New Year's resolutions.
Who keeps them anyway? I defy you to find 3 people who can remember their resolutions from last year much less those who actually followed through. So here is some advice for this year, be abnormal, don't set resolutions, be a champion and set goals.
What is the difference you might ask? Well, the difference is commitment. Goals are things that we are dedicated to achieving. Resolutions are things we set to impress others.
Here are my 7 keys to achieving any goal!
1) Know what your goal is. Think it over and decide what it is you truly want. Decide today to make it a priority and develop an attitude that you are going to make it happen.
2) Overcome your own fear of achieving the goal. Yes we will have some fear of the process, the way people will think of us, and other things that we are sure to come up.
3) Overcome the obstacles that present themselves. Remember challenges are there to determine how committed you are. They present themselves to weed out the weak. Don't be dismayed stay on course. Figure a way through or around.
4) Overcome Negative People. Other people around you will not always be supportive. You need to delete the negative people from your lives. They are the ones who are going nowhere and do not have their own goals. So just leave them behind
5) Take action everyday. You goal needs action everyday to be achieved. So don't let a day go by without some action to move you forward.
6) Don't let failure defeat you. Along the way you are likely to fail to meet a certain standard or objective. Don't let that failure defeat you. Rethink your plan and try again. Winners are not only the ones who finish first, sometimes they are the ones who finish.
7) Repeat steps 1-7 as often as needed. The steps are not set in any order and you may face them at different times and more than once. But keep your goal in front of you in pictures to remind you of the goal you are after, and keep going. Don't quit. Your goal will be reached sooner that you ever thought possible.
So go out there are set Goals and use these steps to achieve them. Face your future and decide today to make it happen.
A major strategy top bloggers use is setting goals.
In this article, we'll look at three easy steps which will ensure you achieve blogging success by setting goals for your blog.
Let's look at focus, because that's the first goal you should set for your blog.
1. Focus is vital for your blog - it will win you readers
Focus is at the heart of your blog. Imagine you're at the supermarket. You buy a can of mushroom soup. The next day, you open the can and you find it contains peas. Would you be annoyed? Of course you would. You want what's on the label.
The same applies to your blog - your readers expect you to stick to the focus of your blog. With millions of blogs available, disappointing your readers even once is fatal: they'll never return.
So decide on a focus and set a goal for it. What's your blog about? Write it down: "My focus for my blog is about how to train your dog for dog shows." Or "my focus for my blog is about how to buy a home".
2. Set a income goal for your blog - and make plans to achieve that income
Your next step is to decide on how you want to make with your blog, and to set goals for achieving that income.
Some bloggers choose to accept advertising on their blog, and this earns them an income over time. However, with advertising, the more content you have the more income you will make, so you won't make much income in your first few months of blogging.
Other bloggers use their content to pre-sell products on which they earn a commission. Using this strategy, your blog can start earning an income for you almost immediately.
Of course, you can combine both these strategies. Do some research and discover how other bloggers are earning an income.
Once you have some experience blogging, you can blog for others, selling your services as a blogger.
So write down your goal of how much income you want to generate with your blog, and your methods for achieving that income.
3. Break your goals down into tasks and schedule all the tasks related to your blog
You've set your goals, and now it's time to break your goals down into daily tasks. One major task is adding content. Readers who come to your blog expect to see plenty of content. So, especially in your first few months with a new blog, content is vital - make that your primary task.
After adding content, your next most important task is to market your blog so that you get traffic. Set tasks for that too.
Enter all your tasks into your calendar program: schedule your tasks as appointments, to ensure that you keep them.
So there you have it - a goal-setting strategy for creating an income-producing blog.
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