How To Be Optimistic About Blogging

If your optimism has waned toward your blog, you have come to the right place.

And, why is that so?

Because I will do my best to help you regain your optimism about blogging.

So, read on closely my friend!

Start By Setting Realistic Goals For Yourself

Unfortunately, some bloggers have made unrealistic blogging goals; such as:

• Wanting to blog every day when they know that a few days a week would be most appropriate for them.
• Expecting their blogs to gain a huge number of followers in a very short timeframe.
• Wanting people to like every blog post that they publish.
• Expecting readers to comment on every blog post that they publish.

If you know that you lack the stamina to publish blog posts daily, blog less (But remain consistent where publishing blog posts on your blog is concerned).

Hey, it is crazy to fathom that you can acquire hundreds of followers overnight (Where followers are concerned, things do not work that way ― you build your followers slowly).

Truthfully, not everyone who visits your blog will like or comment on all of your blog posts (The choice of liking or commenting on your blog posts is solely up to the visitors of your blog).

I would also like to state for the record, that there are people who are silent interactors ― the type of people who simply read what you have posted and do not like or comment on your blog posts (It has nothing to do with them hating or liking your blog posts; that is just their way of doing things online).

So, in regards to blogging, it would be in your best interest to set realistic goals for yourself.

Remain Authentic

Remaining authentic will help you to remain optimistic about blogging because it involves:

• Blogging about the things that you truly care about.
• Choosing to follow the types of blogs from bloggers that you are sincerely interested in and not following the blogs of every single blogger that follows you.
• Choosing contributors for your blog that are aligned with your principles (This is important if you are the type of blogger who features guest bloggers on your blog).

Dear friend, if you deviate from your authenticity, you will end up hating yourself and your blog; thus losing any sort of optimism that you may have towards it.

Treat Your Blog As If It Were An Extension Of Yourself

The truth is that your blog is an extension of yourself because your ideals are represented in each blog post that you publish.

Therefore, if you find yourself hating your blog, you might be unknowingly hating some aspect of yourself (You might have to go into deep contemplation in order to figure out what it is that you hate about yourself).

Everything (including blogging) has a psychological and spiritual connection with you the blogger.

Celebrate Small Wins

One of the best ways of remaining optimistic about blogging is to silently (or loudly) congratulate yourself whenever:

• Your blog gains a new follower.
• Your blog gets a like from a fellow blogger.
• One of your fellow bloggers leaves a comment on any of your blog posts.
• Your blog gets any incoming traffic.

That sort of thing may appear a bit trivial for some people.

However, if you make it a habit of yours to celebrate the small wins, you will remain optimistic about blogging.

The Bottom Line

Dear friend, it is possible for any blogger to remain optimistic about their blog if they:

• Set realistic blogging goals.
• Remain authentic.
• Treat their blog as though it were an extension of themselves.
• Make it a habit of theirs to celebrate the small wins.

If you remain optimistic about your blog, there is a high probability that you will want to watch it grow and not abandon it.

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