I am writing this blog post for myself more than anything else because I could really use this reminder right now, I figure it’s a good reminder for all the bloggers out there too; so I’m posting this article on the blog rather than keeping it as a private journal entry. Obviously, much was altered from the original journal entry, but the theme remains the same: focus on strengths, not interests for blogging success.
In blogging, delusional levels of outrageous optimism beat negative realists every time. Believing you already won the blogging battle in your mind is over half of the battle. It is what will keep you pushing forward all the way to success.
I recently took an inventory of today’s blogging landscape and my optimism for massively winning the blogging game has skyrocketed. I am thoroughly convinced that financial blogging success is now at an all-time high and that if you aren’t in the blogging game and want to make a lot of money, you need to get in now.
True blogging success comes from serving readers and staying humble, not from flexing your ego. Letting go of the ego leads to faster learning, better content, bigger audience, and more money.
When I launched my first blog I thought it was my ticket out of NoWhereVille and my ticket into a luxury condo on a beach somewhere in Thailand, with a cigar hanging out of my mouth, a coconut smoothie in my hand, and a million dollars of change shaking loose in my pocket, just like all my blogging heroes.
Building a blog is a lot like training for an endurance sport. Very early mornings, commitment and consistency, training when you don’t feel like it, training alone, sacrificing time, enduring a lot of pain.
Seeing this everywhere from bloggers, “Google nuked my traffic to my crappy, no-effort articles that didn’t benefit the reader in any way and didn’t have the intent to benefit the reader in any way, WAAAAAAAAH!”
When starting a new blog one of the most common questions is “How often should I publish?” It’s a reasonable question and I will give you the answer.
Y’know how people sometimes make lists and such to amuse themselves? That’s what this is. I’m a big Stephen King fan and this is my list. It’s a list of his books and which ones were turned into movies and which ones I read. I aim to read them all.
In reflecting on 2025, one big trend I noticed was almost nothing in my life was intentional–it was one long slog of Wake Up, Commute, Work, Commute, Task A, Phone Zombification, Task B, Bed and then I’m left scratching my head trying to figure out where the heck my day went.