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What If I am Not Motivated To Update My Blog Anymore?

Posted: 11 Jun 2010 10:51 AM PDT

questions and answers This post is part of the Friday Q&A section. If you want to ask a question, just write a comment below.

Rui Cruz asks:

I'm done updating some blogs because I'm not motivated anymore. And I can't find why, I just don't want to. Any idea or tip on how to get motivated for something we really do for MONEY? Just "money" isn't motivating enough.

There are different angles involved in that question. If you are not motivated at all to update your current blogs then you probably did a couple of mistakes. First of all you probably have chosen niches that you were not passionate about, but you went ahead anyway because you saw other people making money in those niches, and you figured you could, too.

This approach works if you are planning to outsource the content writing part. If you’ll be the one writing the posts, however, you must have an interest on the topic, else you’ll lose motivation sooner or later.

The second mistake is to have started too many blogs at the same time. Finding the time and motivation to update and promote one blog is already tough, let alone several of them at the same time.

The solution to these problems is an easy one. Start a blog on a niche you are passionate about, and focus all your emerging on that single blog, until it reaches the desired level of traffic and profitability. Once you achieve that you’ll be able to start a second blog without losing momentum on the first one.

The second angle I wanted to talk about is the persistence one. Even if you start a blog on a niche you are passionate about and focus all your energies on it, there will still be times that you’ll feel tired, not motivated, without ideas to write and so on. But you got push it anyway if you want to succeed.

This is true for everyone. I love to write on this blog, but there are days I wish I didn’t need to write a post, moderate comments, promote it on social media and so on. And what do I do on such days? I force myself to write the post, to moderate comments, to promote the blog and so on. Why? Because I know I must, if I want this blog to keep growing.

So yeah choosing a topic you have an interest on is essential, but it is not enough. You’ll still need to push yourself if you want to stand out from the crowd.

This reminds me of a movie a saw a couple of weeks ago, titled “Great Debaters.” One of the kids in the movie was reluctant to do his homework, so his father told him: “We do what we have to do in order to do what we want to do.”

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