3 Excellent ways to keep motivated when writing your blog

I bet everybody out there at least at some point in the career found it hard to keep motivated even when your blog is having little traffic. You may be writing post after post and your still not getting anything.

One of the hardest things is that you work on your blog everyday in the beginning and you are not getting any traffic, comments or the social shares to gain the recognition you so rightly deserve.

Now you don't have to. With these great steps you will certainly be able to get your work done without the hassle of thinking you don't have the motivation.

The real learning happens when things are hard, when you feel that your working for absolutely nothing and nobody wants to read what you have to say. Being able to work through all that negativity and still write posts, share posts etc.. will eventually make your a stronger blogger.

If you can write a post in a conversational style when you have no one to talk to, then think about what you will be writing when you have an active audience. The good news is the hardest part of your blogging expedition is in the beginning stages. THE BLOG LAUNCH.

When you launch your blog, this is where you will do most of the work. Writing posts, getting readers, backlinks, making new blog friends and setting your own personal goals.

But once you have a blog rolling full of content, traffic and your blogs community is ever growing, things start to get a little easier. You still need to work at it hard, but more on a maintaining level.

Lets have a look at some of the things you can do to keep going.

Appreciate the smaller things

Every successful blog has more to do with appreciating the smaller wins you have everyday then it does with the fewer big wins. The small wins keep us motivated. They keep us in a positive place to keep going further to acheive the bigger things.

Try focusing on the smaller things which can be anything from extra unique visitors each day, more comments on a post or more social shares. This can be anything that you are trying to achieve but make sure you start off small.

Just realise and appreciate them. These will grow your blog.
Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen wrote a book called 73 Ways to Fire Up (or Just Fire) the Muse: How to Write When You Don't Wanna, or Think You Can't (Quips and Tips eBooks) and gives you wonders of great motivation skills and tips to help you avoid writers block.

Build on the smaller things

Once you have achieved a small win, you will want to build on this. Focus on other small wins to help keep you motivated and working.

Try aiming for a post a week. Seems like a small win right? Once you hit that, then build off that and go for another small win, like sharing your blog post on 5 new sites or spending 30 min a day on Twitter or Facebook. All are small wins that you can reach each day or week.

The more small wins you can put together, the faster you will see success with your blog.

Look back on where you came from

Do this with your blog. Sometimes we get so busy that we forget where we started. For me, I like to look back on the early days when I couldn’t get a comment or a RT or share to save my life. I look at how my writing and topics have changed for the better. I look at how more focused my goals are now with my blog then they were back then.

You need to do the same, look back and see how far you and your blog have come.

These 3 things helped me get through my early days of blogging. I am glad that I have kept working through all the negativity and happy with the direction my blog is heading. If you follow these steps above. You will take your invisible blog to a successful blog in no time.