Continuing my series of articles on The Blogging life, I address the evolution of a blogging career in this post.
It’s funny how y
ou start out with this grand plan for success when you begin blogging. Every aspect of what you need to do is laid out before you and all you have to do is take action.
Then something happens on the way to success. You find out that your flight path is heading through some of the most well traveled galaxies in cyberspace. This is the route alright, but is this the only way?
It’s the same route that everyone seems to travel and I want to experience a little something different and see some different stars. So you once again adjust your flight path and head for new territory. It’s a chance to explore some new worlds, do something challenging and approach things differently.
“You won’t end up where you started”. Early bloggers may not recognize or understand that phrase but as the blogging life unfolds you come to appreciate just what this means.
When you have creativity within, you may not know your true calling until you see it. It’s like shopping for a piece of art for your home, what you want is hard to describe but you know it when you find it.
You may have started out to be the best (insert niche) blogger on the planet but things change and you are drawn toward your more creative side. It’s the evolution of blogging, much like the evolution of life.
One of the great rewards of life is the accomplishment of personal success, but that success cannot be fully realized until you are living your passion.
You Don’t Have To Be Like the Others
The fact of the matter is this; there is precious little that has yet to be done on the internet. But you don’t have to do what you decide the exact same way as the others. Show that creativity and add a little YOU in what you do.
Don’t worry about what someone else is doing, think of what’s possible for you to accomplish with your own style and brand. Adjust your path if you must because it’s a foregone conclusion.
You won’t end up where you started.
Have you adjusted your path along the way?
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I always say beaten paths are for beaten men and finding your own route through the blogging jungle is more rewarding than traipsing along where others have been. I am not decrying the blogging courses run by others but maybe the best way to learn is by your mistakes -providing you do learn and don’t repeat them. In the last year or so I have ploughed my own furrow and there have been times when I wondered why I bothered but in the last two weeks for some reason I have seen a 30% increase in visitors so something is going right. I have a long way to go, especially in promoting the blog and networking, but I’m an organic, evolution rather than revolution sort of chap and as the blog grows I change too.
It reminds me of flight plans, Jimi.
I don’t have a pilot license to fly planes – but I hear that a plane rarely follows the exact flight plan from the origin to destination. Most of the time, it’s off course, and the micro shifts that the pilots make inflight is what keeps it from straying away.
Blogging too need these micro shifts. Not only do external conditions and circumstances change – our own paradigms, insights and perspectives change. With each change, an adjustment is called for.
And folks who does not take this in their strides are like a ship lost at sea
I’ve watched you blog evolve into what it has become today, and you’ve poured yourself into it big time. When I think about it, we’ve all come quite some distance since the T-12 days. LOL
Life’s good and the journey continues. Rock on, my friend!
That’s a great analogy, Kapil.
With the expanse of airspace I guess there is no need to be absolutely exact on every flight. Blogging is the same. As we interject a bit of ourselves in all we do online, there has to be a different way of accomplishing our goals. The mechanics of doing certain things will remain, but there is always room to add our own styles.
“Don’t worry about what someone else is doing, think of what’s possible for you to accomplish with your own style and brand.” — very encouraging, probably what most of us would like to hear. Never will I regret the decision I made a year ago to pursue home-based business/freelancing. I believe no matter what, I will reach somewhere. Continue the faith and learn as much. Thanks for confirming that with this post, Jimi.
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