What is the Secret to Actually Achieving Your Blogging Goals?

While resolutions are great, they’re notoriously hard to keep. Whether it’s fitness or blogging, the high rate of failure is generally due to two primary things: (1) a lack of specific goals or vision, and (2) making the resolution more difficult than it should be to obtain.

If you want to actually achieve your blogging resolutions this year, you need to make things easier on yourself.

Blogging doesn’t have to be super challenging and arduous. In fact, the more difficult you make blogging, the less likely it is that you’ll achieve your goals.

With that being said, here are practical tips you can implement to increase your chances of actually seeing your blogging resolutions through this year.

The first step is to make sure you’re using a simple blogging platform that makes the process of publishing and sharing content easy. WordPress is the platform most bloggers end up settling on.

You have blogging goals and resolutions, but are they SMART? In other words, are they specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely? In order to achieve your blogging goals with greater ease and consistency, you need to ensure they adhere to these criteria.

If you sit down in front of the computer each morning and try to develop a blog post from scratch, you’re going to get burned out. You’ll also lack vision, which is problematic when consistency is the goal.

Some things you must do manually in order to be successful, but there are also plenty of aspects of blogging that you can either automate or streamline, with the assistance of powerful and cost-effective tools.

If you have to write every single blog post on your own, you’re going to get burned out pretty quickly. One way to ensure you stay fresh, without compromising your blog, is to work with guest bloggers and invite people to contribute to your site.

What you’ll find is that there are lots of people online who are willing to provide you with free content in return for some small favors — like a couple of backlinks to their websites, or mentions on social media.

The more you can simplify the blogging process, the more likely it is that you’ll accomplish your goals and stick with your resolutions. While blogging might not be the most fun thing on your website to-do list, it’s perhaps the most important in an age where content is the currency of modern digital marketing.

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