About a week ago, a friend of mine came at me with the question “What is your blogging goal?”
I had to stop for a second before I gave her my answer…
“I don’t really have one, except to do BETTER this month than I did LAST month.”
I want to reach MORE people.
I want to inspire/help MORE parents.
I want to help MORE kids get the time that they need from their parents.
I want to help my family by making MORE money on my blog (my income report).
I want to help other bloggers by giving them MORE info on how to be successful.
I just want to do MORE this month than I did last month.
I know that most bloggers have specific goals like “I want to be at 500,000 FB fans by December 2015” but my goal has never been specific, because honestly, I don’t think that our goals can keep up with us, as bloggers. Yes, I just said that.
I never dreamt that my blog would become the success that it has become. If I had set my goals, I would have far under reached them and maybe I wouldn’t have my dreams set so high (yes, I have DREAMS… lots of those!)
I don’t set specific goals because I try hard EVERY DAY at blogging.
I don’t try to reach one goal, just to reach it. No.
Every.Single.Day I work my hardest at blogging (well- minus the weekends… that time is for my family).
For my blog, I just don’t let up. If I had goals, would I stop when I got there? Would you? Probably not… So- I don’t set them.
The truth is that I really can’t set goals because blogging doesn’t really allow for that.
Some days my FB page is fantastic, other days, I hear crickets.
Some days I get so many page views that my overage costs are hundreds of dollars, other days, I’m under my normal view amount.
Blogging is like a roller coaster. There are up days and down days, but I can’t tell someone where I want to be in a certain number of days, months, years… because I don’t know myself. The sky is the limit!
I can just say that I want to do better tomorrow than I did today (just like being a Mom, I guess). I want to do better next month than I did this month. I take it day by day (well month by month!) and enjoy the fact that I am spending time at home with my family, making money, and making other people happy with my words.
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That’s good. For me, it’s trying to find the best balance between constantly improving and working on my blogs and yet still enjoy the process.
🙂 love it.
Thanks for this post, Becky. I really appreciate and agree with your openness in your goals, ‘just doing better and better!” That’s a great way to look at goals, that way there are no limits, like you said, ‘the sky’s the limit’! I’m learning so much from you and appreciate all of your help and guidance.
Diane