How many years in a row have you resolved to blog consistently? Maybe you completed your blogged book and then lost interest in publishing posts on a schedule. Or perhaps you never managed to blog consistently enough to blog a book.
Whatever the case, the fact is that you’ve not followed through on your resolution to blog consistently. So, what makes you think this year will be any different?
The only way to create different results in the new year is to do something differently. And for that to happen, you have to be different.
You have to change if you want to change your blogging consistency.
How to Become a Successful Blogger
You already know that blogging consistency is imperative to becoming a successful blogger. You can read posts written by any number of blogging experts and find the same advice—blog consistently, frequently on a schedule.
So, you keep promising yourself you will do just that—blog consistently on a schedule. And then you don’t.
Have Integrity with Yourself
The reasons why you don’t keep those promises aren’t important. (They are just excuses.) What matters is that you don’t keep your promises to yourself—and your readers. And each time you fail to keep those promises, it becomes much harder to follow through and write and publish posts.
When you finally become self-integral and keep the promises you make to yourself, you will blog consistently. In fact, that’s what it takes: self-integrity.
Commit to Your Blogging Schedule
Self-integrity also is tied to your commitment level. If you aren’t committed to your blog (or blogged book), you won’t keep to any blogging schedule. In fact, you’ll let just about anything get in the way of writing and publishing a post.
Therefore, you must evaluate your commitment to blogging—whether blogging a book, promoting an existing book, or developing an audience for all your books. If you had to rank yourself on a scale of one to ten, with ten being the highest, where would you score your level of commitment?
You will struggle to write and publish posts consistently if your commitment level is a five or below. If you can raise your score to a six or seven, you will begin to find blogging consistently much easier. Raise that score to an eight or nine, and you will have the commitment to blog consistently.
A higher degree of commitment helps you become more self-integral.
Obligation or Desire
When you lack the commitment to your blog, blogging on a schedule feels like an obligation. But when you are committed to your blog and its success, you have the desire to blog consistently.
The difference between obligation and desire is enormous. No one likes to feel obligated; that emotion leads to resistance and procrastination. However, if you genuinely want to work on your blog, you will dive into the work eagerly and passionately.
And your readers will be able to tell the difference… You’ll attract a larger audience much faster when you blog because you want to do so.
You are the Problem
By now, you’ve probably realized that the only thing stopping you from blogging consistently is you. You are the problem…not the other things that seemingly get in the way of blogging your book or publishing posts on a schedule.
Thus, if you want something to be different in the new year so you find it easy to commit to and follow through with your resolution to blog consistently, you have to change.
Changing is not just about muscling through to form a habit. Habits developed by force never stick.
Instead, change is about transforming yourself—who you are being. For example, if you are being “a consistent blogger,” you will blog consistently. Your habits will align with your identity. And the habit will form naturally and stick long term.
Transform Yourself Into a Consistent (and Successful) Blogger
You might wonder how you become a consistent (and successful) blogger. After all, you’ve tried to achieve these results in the past but failed.
The answer is simple: focus on your personal growth or development.
You can find tons of information online about how to blog successfully. And you can find masses of information on this blog about how to blog a book and become a successful blogger.
You’ll have a harder time finding information on how to transform yourself into a successful writer, author, and blogger. That’s a different topic but one common to succeeding in any endeavor.
Successful people invest loads of time, energy, thought, and money in personal growth. They read books, hire coaches, enroll in programs, and constantly evaluate themselves to become someone who can do whatever is necessary to get the result they want: success.
So, if becoming a consistent blogger is necessary for your success, you must become a person who blogs consistently. Or decide to be a successful writer, author, and blogger, because such a person would blog consistently already. After all, that’s partly how they became successful.
Focus on Your Transformation
For 12+ years, I’ve consistently provided blog posts on this site that are chock full of helpful information. My focus has been on blogging books, booking blogs, and becoming a successful blogger in general.
Occasionally, I’ve also offered a personal-growth-oriented post. Why? Because that’s the true path to success…and the fastest one, too. I also wrote about this in one chapter in both How to Blog a Book and The Author Training Manual.
Other blogging experts have more to say about how to design your site, write your posts, or develop the best SEO strategy. But finding bloggers or authors who can support your efforts to become consistent, productive, passionate, and influential bloggers are few and far between. In fact, I can’t think of even one writing, blogging, or publishing expert who can help you with the transformation required to succeed in all these arenas.
And that’s why this site will provide information on transforming yourself into a successful writer, author, and blogger using personal development in the new year. I plan to decrease my publishing frequency to once per month, and posts will offer you the best success strategies and tools based on personal growth.
Why am I qualified to provide this unique writing, publishing, and blogging approach? If you don’t already know, I’m a transformational coach and a Certified High Performance Coach. I already write about related topics on my primary site; now, I will use my expertise when publishing posts here.
I might occasionally have a guest blogger write about the ins and outs of blogging well. But in general, I plan to offer personal growth for bloggers since I firmly believe that is the missing link necessary for success.
You can know everything there is to know about blogging successfully and still not be a successful blogger. For example, you may have studied blogging techniques and understand how important it is to blog consistently. But if you aren’t using any of what you learned, you realize there is more to success than blogging knowledge.
You must use the knowledge you have. And taking action on what you know requires being someone who can put that information to use. When you are someone who does that—including blogging consistently, you will succeed.
If you want to increase your writing, publishing, and blogging success using personal growth strategies, join the Inspired Creator Community. As a member, you will be privy to a results-oriented, science-backed, world-class personal growth curriculum and my proprietary transformational coaching and training program.
The Inspired Creator Community is not a writing or blogging membership per se. Its primary focus is on personal and spiritual growth—on transformation. However, as a member, you’ll be able to take advantage of monthly author coaching and all the courses and ebooks in the Nonfiction Writers’ University. (After December 31, 2022, I will no longer offer private author coaching; thus, the Nonfiction Writers’ University offers you the only way to work with me in this capacity.)
Got questions about becoming a member of one of my programs? Reach out.
Have you invested in your personal growth and found it helped you succeed as a writer, author, and blogger? Tell me in a comment below. And please share this post with a friend.
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