Hi there fellow bloggers! How are you guys been doing
lately? Have you check out the previous post about every blogger’s fear? Well
after you have overcome it, the next step is to have goals or promises to set for
yourself along the journey. Why? Because this is one of the ways to make sure
you are motivated!
There are a lot of resources found over the internet, no
matter for beginners or professionals, they are all focusing on short term and
long term goals, so in this post I shall share some of the ones I think
suitable for beginners and hopefully also helpful for professionals. Alright
let’s go!
Write it all on pieces of paper
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| Write, write and write |
As everyone’s advice sound, personally for me I think it
does not have to be a pen and paper method, as long as you have a copy of
notepad on your desktop as a reminder for you, you can also print it out if you
want and stick it on the corner of your monitor. So write it down what your
goals and promises for yourself to achieve, well here is the question:
How do you write it out?
That’s right, of course you could write things like “Be a number
1 blogger in the world” the problem is how and where you going to achieve it?
Fear not! Use S.M.A.R.T. technique will help break your big and noble goals into
manageable little bits and keep you stay motivated at all times!
Break it down with S.M.A.R.T. technique
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| “Big things has small beginnings” – Dryden from the movie Lawrence of Arabia |
Specific
Be specific, whether to yourself or others, we cannot
impress everyone all the time, choose what you think is best for you and
others, WHY and WHAT is the purpose of your choice goes a long way if you be firm
to what you had set because those 2 questions will leads you to WHO to look for, whether a friend who
thinks like you or a blogging friend, either collaborate together and manage a
same blog or help each other to a common goal, your friend can be online or
offline buddies. Both of you may check each other’s progress from time to time.
Measurable
After you determine what your specifications is, break it
down into smaller achievable bits or steps, this is an important way that will
breathe life into the big goals you have set and make it real in future. Break
goals into pro-active practices, not just written plans that you put in your
calendar only and thought you could just do it another day. So to avoid that
happen to most of us, break it down as small as possible and do it as a daily
basis.
Attainable
I have to admit this, this part is cruel and sometimes you
might be questioning yourself if you really up for what’s ahead of you. Dreams
and ideas are great to keep us motivate however at the same time ironically we
also need to be realistic enough to let go some of it due to time constraint or
our capabilities.
Relevant
So after some steps of filtering of whether it is attainable
and break it into measurable bits of what you already specified, now you have
to ask yourself, was everything relevant to your ULTIMATE vision of what you
want your blog to appear? Aha, don’t be late enough to ask yourself this
question, you might need to start all over again.
Time
Finally, set a deadline, every start has an end if there are
no ends in your dreams, your dreams might just stay as dreams because you do
not have the sense of time to rush things or a reason to do things to meet the deadline;
that is why we called it a milestone, determine what shall be done and think of
the ways to accomplish it.
So guys, make it small so you have the confidence and may
use your strength separately every day, remember from the last post, is not
about the sprint, is about a long marathon. If I were to force myself to write
a book every day, every morning I will be in fear and I won’t even finish a single
paragraph within a day due to the stress given to myself, so start small and
enjoy doing it.
*ps: if you are not enjoying it, you are doing it wrong.
