I love this post. In the past 2 years or so I have followed your site and listened to your words of wisdom, however none really hit home like this one did. I live in the Riverland (South Australia) and often get caught up thinking that I’m in the wrong place to be successful online. I’ve been writing on my site for over 12 months and still struggle to get traffic. Funnily enough, even as I write this I am procrastinating….

Thankyou for your brilliant website, keep up the good work. I’m off to actually achieve something on my site today!

You must be psychic lol … this couldn’t have come at a better time for me. Having recently started my own VA Company there are days when I wonder if all my hard work will ever pay off but then I know I can blow client’s minds with my service and have a very strong belief and vision for my business and THAT is what keeps me going.

As a single parent with two children and working every spare moment to establish my business I can empathise greatly with your post

Thankyou!
Tracy

Enjoy your day,
Sue

Great article, Yaro!

Sure enough persistence is the key to success, be it as a manager or business owner. At the same time, the concept of “forcing myself to be productive when I don’t feel like it” does not always work for me. And I have observed that it does not work for a certain type of my clients either.

Particularly it does not work for me when creative work is involved. If I force myself and I simply don’t get into the flow, the result will be rubbish – and often a complete makeover is required. I have learned to accept that sometimes I may look unproductive on the surface, but down below my unconscious mind is highly active. All over sudden it will all come out in an outburst of energy and activity, and things just flow.

For me it helped to discover when I am my personal best, and not to beat myself up on an apparently unproductive day. Or as a friend of mine called it: it’s not procrastination, it’s incubation!

You’re the best, man. Someone I want to hang out with sometime in the future.

Oftentimes, I wake and all I can say is “What the heck? Why am I still blogging when my mates are out there focusing on their studies?”, but there’s simply something unique about me and everyone who want to get anywhere – our dreams never die

I just had to cut this out from this post “…and while it’s obviously more fruitful to look at other people achieving what you desire as motivation, as a fallible human, jealousy, depression and anger may be your initial responses.” Alright! Oftentimes, I get depressed and angry at myself that I can’t measure open to your success or that of others but that’s when I start falling of course

Great post, Yaro! Keep it up, man.

Getting Down is Common and has to occur to put you on the highway to work better in future. Since there is nothing written in Black and white to follow about oneself success, we have to get inspiration from others example .

So, it’s important to keep doing it even when we don’t feel like; that will make us eventually overcome that initial feeling.

Thanks for sharing this, Yaro!

You raise some really good points about Blogging online, with passion and a willing to succeed no matter what life throws your way – that is the formula for success.

Blogging is not a quick rich scheme and it does take time to have a good number of followers. Once you have an idea of what you want to write about, know what keywords the viewers are looking for and know where to set up blogs then applying yourself each and every day – that is how anyone can succeed with blogs!

Since I have discovered my passions, and my desire to live a life full of possibilities that has made a huge difference to my blogging style, tips and outlook. Having the right mindset will lead to a life of blogging that is fun yet also makes money.

Thanks for sharing Yaro.

Cheers
Lisa

I was writing but no one was reading but eventually I reached the tipping point. My blog traffic is still very low but crossing the 100 subscriber mark certainly helped motivate me to persist..

Thank You for providing such great resources for the community..

I believe that things have a way of working out … as long as you keep doing the next right thing. Sometimes that ‘next right thing’ is pretty small in overall scheme of things, but it’s so important to keep the forward momentum going.

Very timely message too – I wasn’t having a ‘throw in the towel’ sort of day, but I’ve definitely hit a flat spot. I’m glad I saved your email – it’s just what I needed to get going again.

Thanks,
Michael

Thank you.

Carlos

Manny thanks