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If you want to be a successful blogger, you need to have the right mindset. While talent and great content are important, you also need to have a lot of confidence. You need to be confident in not only yourself, but your knowledge about the niche you have chosen and your ability to provide your readers with all the information they need to know about the niche. And, although it may sound contradictory, you need to be discontent as well as confident.
Why?
Because a successful blogger can never be too comfortable with what he or she is doing. The moment you sit back and relax, your blog will go downhill. You shouldn’t just assume that your readers will automatically read everything you write. You need to write every new article as if it’s the most important piece you’ve ever written. A successful blogger is never 100% satisfied with anything he or she creates or writes.
Courage
Courage is also an important attribute. Some people can never do this for a living because they’re too shy or afraid to present their beliefs and ideas to the world. This means you should never hold back because you are afraid of what other people will think. While you should take constructive criticism into consideration, you shouldn’t let it hold you back. The whole point of blogging is to share your views with the world, and holding back undermines the reason(s) people start blogs in the first place.
Thick Skin
You shouldn’t just have courage : you should have thick skin as well. It’s unfortunate, but “trolls” are something we all have to deal with at times. People will go beyond criticism and say mean things just because they can. You need to learn not to take negative and immature comments as personal attacks. Some bloggers don’t get offended at all over trolls and laugh everything off. If you’re the type of person who gets their feelings hurt easily, you’ll either have to learn to not take negative comments seriously or not get into blogging at all.
Motivation
Motivation is another important aspect you need to have. You need to be enthused about your niche and motivated to write about it. There will be times when you experience writer’s block and have trouble maintaining focus. Still, you should try to at least come up with something, or write more than usual once you overcome your block.
You should never settle with the amount of traffic you’re getting. Even if you get thousands of unique hits a day, you need to strive for more. Do whatever it takes to get motivated. For every single day you slack, one of your competitors moves one step ahead. For every reader you disappoint, another blogger will impress. Try your best not to slack and work hard on updating your blog every single day.
Passion
Passion about your niche and blog is very important, as it will keep you going even when you’re running low on motivation. Whenever you think about giving up, think about the reasons why you wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Think about how much knowledge needs to be shared with your readers. If you ever feel burned out on the niche, look for some inspiration that’ll help you get going again.
What’s your view? Agree / disagree? What other traits are required to be a successful blogger? Share your views in the comments below.
About Author :
Andrew Rondeau is the owner of WeBuildYourBlog.com and he covers all the aspects of starting your own blog and making a blog income.
About Lee Ka Hoong
For me Motivation and Passion are most important. If you have no motivation you cannot even make the start. Passion helps in long run. When you do not get the results you wanted, passion can keep you in one piece.
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Agent Deepak
“When you do not get the results you wanted, passion can keep you in one piece.”
Love this!
Andrew
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Thanks Andrew
I liked your article. Looking forward to see nice articles on your blog too.
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I like the point passion that Andrew mentioned on this post. We should have passion of work. Sometime I forget to take my food when I doing work, its because of passion of my work. Hope for success one day by blogging.
Well Lee I have listed your blog on my most favorite blog list, which I mentioned on my latest blog post.
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Chandan,
Forgetting to take food! Happens to me when I get really passionate about my work. My wife has to remind me…sometimes.
Andrew
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If you are not able to handle criticism and demotivation, you are going to fail. Always find various methods to keep yourself motivated and it will help you progress despite all odds.
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Rohit
If it’s negative criticism…ignore it and move on.
What methods do you use to keep motivated?
Andrew
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Hi Andrew,
Wow…it gets more and more interesting feedback lately… Nicely done everbody… Ahh…how about ‘thick skull’…ha…ha…ha… Because without having hard and tougher helmet like Magneto, you’ll definitely easy to be mesmerize by unhealthy force…
We should do this more often… Cheers…
Persistence and Inquisitiveness are also good dispositions to develop. It takes a while to gather enough person experience and understanding about the various elements of operating and marketing your blog. If you’re not persistent, you may give up long before your success begins to unfold. And, if you’re not inquisitive, its hard to gather constant creative inspiration to work on the front-end – come up with new and interesting content and ways to market your blog, and to work on the back-end – learning principles of on-site and off-site SEO, design, and coding.
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Will,
Nice – I like the advice you are sharing. I agree persistence is key and so many of us don’t posses enough of it! We give up after a few months and go back to our comfort zones.
I like “inquisitive” – it’s a great spin on creativity.
Andrew
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Ah the trolls, they break up the day, don’t they? ;)
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you are right lee , passion is very important for blgger . i always tell the noob about passion before they start their first blog.
You must have passion in what you are doing, so that motivates me to write a helpful blog post every day.
Passion == motivation. Without it, I don’t think that I can survive until now.
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dude…u missed patience…..the much needed virtue to become a successful blogger
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