Are you and your blog ready for the coming of a new year?
Are you excited about the prospect of growing your blog in 2012?
Do you dream about more readers, engagement and even more of the “M” word – money?
As bloggers, we are faced with taking action in order to enhance our little piece of the blogosphere. What we do or don’t do is key to the success of our respective blogs.
In short, we have to produce.
Scary huh?
Stay with me now. This post is all about providing you with some solid productivity tips that will help you break through that fear and face your work with a sense of confidence.
So let’s take a look at three productivity tips you can use on your blog in 2012.
1. Create daily reminders of your goals
This tip assumes that you have set goals for your blog. Your goals are your guide. Without them you are likely to wander aimlessly.
With your goals in hand, create a system where you are reminded daily of them.
Whether you use a day planner, a dry erase board, email reminders, a vision board or something else, keep your goals in plain view. This keeps you focused on what lies ahead and sets you up to succeed in reaching your goals.
The more you see your goals – the more productive you become.
The more productive you become – the more goals you reach.
The more goals you reach – the more confident you become to stretch even further into new and exciting areas for you and your readers.
2. Create a schedule that works for you
Successful bloggers create schedules for themselves.
The key to this process is to create a schedule that works for you – that has your time frames, needs and working style in mind. If you are trying to work on the schedule of someone or something else, you will push back and ultimately cause more frustration than good.
A tool that I have found helpful for me in scheduling my time is the Pomodoro Technique by Francesco Cirillo. Created back in the 1980′s, this way of scheduling my day has really helped me to stay focused and work in such a way that is productive.
There are tons of productivity techniques out there that you can adopt and use. The key here is that whatever method you choose, it has to be something that works for you. If it feels right, you will use and do well with it. If it doesn’t, you won’t.
3. Don’t be addicted to perfection
The worst killer of productivity is perfectionism.
Nobody is perfect so don’t waste valuable time trying to make things perfect. Know when to stop at “good enough.”
It’s easy to say nobody is perfect; it is often hard to live like we mean it. Perfectionism can lead to frustration, anger and disillusionment — all things that can take away from our performance as a blogger. Trying to be perfect with everything you do and write is just simply impossible.
Become more productive by releasing the need to be perfect. You and your readers will be much happier.
Blogging is an amazing thing. Bloggers often touch lives is ways that other media forms cannot.
I hope these tips give you something to work with as you strive to touch those lives with your blog.
Your Turn:
What other productivity tips do you use to help you produce?
Keep the conversation alive in the comments!
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