Motivation is the key for everything you want to do. And for everything taking some time to accomplish you will have to stay motivated. This is true for climbing the Mt. Everest, and it is true when you want to start out in Blogging or the Internet Business in general.
Why is that?
Well, before starting to attract readers to your blog, making a living from being a professional blogger or sell information products online, you have to become an expert on this subject yourself. You have to know how to do things to make people want your articles, products, information or whatever. And becoming an expert takes time. A lot of time. Take Mozart: he was a wunderkind at the age of 4, but before he wrote the music we still hear and appreciate, it took him 13 more years! OK, you do not want to become a second Mozart, that is true, but the quintessence of all this is simple: you want to become on expert on a certain subject; and this process takes time.
You cannot escape this fact, I am sorry. This applies even more to the Internet Business. And if anyone will tell you something else, simply do not believe it. Websites are legion telling you to purchase a product and to become “automatically” successful online, making a gazillion dollars overnight. Forget it! Not true! Let’s take an example:
The only way to learn to play the guitar is by playing it, right? The only way to become a professional blogger is by blogging, isn’t it? The only way to see the top of the world is climbing the Mt. Everest, not true? Well, before I get carried away, you got the idea: if you want to become the expert, you will have to work yourself. Others can help you, sure, but the biggest chunk of work is on you. And this takes time. Plain and simple.
And motivation. Remember: this is fundamental. Motivation is the key for everything you want to accomplish. So, how to get the motivation that will take with it on the way to becoming an expert? Here are 5 suggestions:
1) Find good reasons
You have to define for yourself what motivates you. And knowing why you want to do things can help a lot. So ask yourself the following questions:
a) Am I passionate about a certain subject?
b) And if so, why am I passionate about it?
Asking you those questions can help you to define the reason for your actions. And passion can help you to stay motivated over time. So here’s the equation: passion = motivation.
Ask yourself about the reasons you want to start blogging or make money online? Is it just the money, the material reward? Or might it be some personal gain, since you will learn something new and improve yourself in a certain way? One thing is for sure: you will gain abilities you didn’t have before, and this is a good reason that can get you motivated.
Another reason could be that you will have a feeling of accomplishment. You will have completed a very difficult task. Imagine how you would feel in that very moment. Imagine how it will be: having made the first dollar online. This can be a very powerful motivation.
Every reason will be a step closer to your bigger goal. So, what is this bigger goal for you? Learn how to blog about a subject? Make a living with the money you will earn through Internet Marketing? Whatever it is, every little step is a step closer to what you want to accomplish. Make sure to have enough reasons to be greatly motivated to continue.
2) Make it fun
Different people may have completely opposite feelings towards the same task. Some will hate it, others will love it. Why is that? Some of us find ways to make any task interesting and fun to do. This depends on how you look at it. You can have fun doing just about anything. Just look for ways of having fun, and you’ll find them.
You can enhance your experience by asking you questions like:
a) How can I enjoy this task?
b) What can I to do to make this task fun for myself?
c) How can I make this work the best part of my day?
Of course you may encounter some problems: since it is a purely technical thing to install a blog or to change its design, you might feel bored about it. But you can choose to make it fun. Let’s take an example: you eat a few times every day, and this process is a purely “technical thing”. But I am sure you love it. Why? Because the food is different every time, you try to vary a little bit. When doing technical tasks you can do the same. Try to vary things. Find yourself a reason for doing this task that motivates you (see “Find good reasons”). And do not forget, the next time it will be a lot easier. So why not having fun this time?
3) Take a different approach
If you want to stay motivated and accomplish your goal, there is always a way to do it. And precisely this could be the problem: often there is more than one way to accomplish things. And this is so true for the Internet Business and Blogging in particular. Just too many ways to do things.
This offers you an advantage: when one way does not bring the results you expected, just take another way, a different approach. This can help you to stay motivated over a long time.
But this very advantage can get you into trouble. Why? We are wired in a way that we are always looking for the best way to go. THE way, the only one. And we are always trying and looking for the most efficient way to accomplish a task. This could overwhelm you completely and lead to procrastination: you do not see the forest because of the trees, so to say. But this will be covered in another post. Just one thing to finish this: stay flexible, if one way does not work for you, just choose one and take it. Do not be overwhelmed. You will arrive at destination, and this is your goal.
4) Recognize your progress
Your bigger goal can be split into smaller parts and stages, which you will accomplish first. If you want to learn how to run, you will have to learn how to walk first. And before this you will have to learn how to make the first steps. And before this… well, you get the idea.
To stay motivated on your way to become a blogger or make money in the Internet Business, you will have to focus on the small steps that will lead you to the big outcome you want. Recognize this progress. Every time. It will strongly motivate you to continue taking the next step.
When you want to make 1,000 dollars, you have to start and make one dollar first. Then ten, after that a hundred and finally a thousand. But in the beginning, you have to learn how to make that first dollar and to concentrate on that. When you take the next step for the ten dollars, did you forget that you learnt already how to make one dollar? No, you didn’t. Be aware of your progress. Recognize it. Feel it. And do not forget it. This is important, since your progress will keep you going and motivated. A great reward!
5) Reward yourself
As soon as you get one of your agreed results take time to reward yourself in some way. When I made my first dollar online, I cheered and danced and jumped in a way that my wife thought I had gone completely nuts. This was a reward for me 
Your progress may not seem to others like anything worth celebrating. But others are not you, they do not understand how great the results were for YOU. So take your time and do it anyway. It is your accomplished task and your reward!
Finally: mix and match
Now that you have these five ways of staying motivated, it is a good moment to give you the key to them all: mix and match! Pick one of the advices and apply it to your situation. If it doesn’t work, or if you simply want to get even more motivation, try another advice right way. Mix different approaches and match them to your task for best results.
Just think about it: finding good reasons to work on your task is bound to help you feel a bit better. Identifying ways to make it fun will help you enjoy the task even more. Finally, if you then plan a few points for easier tracking of your progress and on top of that agree on rewarding yourself as you go – this will make you feel most motivated about anything you have to work through on your way to becoming an expert.
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