There are so many different strategies (offered by bloggers) on how to achieve successes in your blogging career. And, I’m not here to devalue any of them. As a matter of fact, I’ve offered up some suggestions myself and I stand by them. They’ve provided positive results in my blogging experience and so I share those golden nuggets of blogging enlightenment with you in hopes that they help guide you down your blogging path.
But, I do want to put out a disclaimer that such recommended strategies (by me and others) may or may not work for you and others. Human beings are unique in that way. We’re so individualized that one set of scenarios won’t necessarily play out the same way for me as they do for you and vice versa. And although I consistently try to aim for practical tips and suggestions that can work for any blogger, I miss the mark sometimes. Here’s the deal: one size doesn’t fit all in all cases.
However, there are those pieces of foundational wisdom that universally transcend time, space, and circumstance — an applied wisdom that touches all individuals no matter how completely different they are from one another.
And boy oh boy oh boy, I’m determined to share one of those tenets with you right now. Well, in all actuality, you’ve probably already caught a clue with the title of today’s blog post. And you also probably know this tenet to be true. But do you REALLY? After all, actions speak louder than words.
Okay, so read the title one more time before I proceed. (I’ll give you a few seconds to let the words sink in before I move on.)
Ten . . . nine . . . eight . . . seven . . . six . . . five . . .
And now, we shall proceed. Let’s briefly have some discussion on THE DAILY GRIND.
So, THE DAILY GRIND is what I like to call THE REPETITIVE WORK BEHIND THE SCENES THAT CREATES THE SUCCESS. It’s the formally unrecognized (by others), tedious, unrelenting, and unglamorous type of work that gets the blogging job done on the daily and positions your blog to keep moving in a positive progression within the blogosphere.
WAIT! Wait just a minute. Let me pause for a station break . . .
I have to be very careful here, because one person’s GRIND work is the next person’s favorite activity of the day. Therefore, I’m not about to tick anyone off on that point.
I’ll refrain from discussing the types of repetitive activities that need to be implemented in your day-to-day to satisfy the definition of THE DAILY GRIND. (Hey, they’re subjective at best.) No, I have no interest in talking about that boring stuff at all. It’s work. And you fully know good and well what I’m talking about when I mention the “unglamorous” work. So . . .
Fill in the blank for me, will you? YOU get to determine what THE DAILY GRIND is for you. And I want you to take that definition and understand its vital role in the success of your blog. Your blog can’t live without it. As a matter of fact, just stop doing the GRIND work for a certain amount of time and watch what happens. Actually, DON’T DO THAT! We want a success story here. So, I wouldn’t advise you to do that at all. Just picture in your mind what would happen if you stopped doing THE WORK THAT CREATES YOUR SUCCESS STORY.
Again, YOU get to determine what the repetitive, not-so-fun, but “oh-so critical to the life of your blog” work looks like for YOU. And if you stop doing that work, your blog dies. That’s the short answer to the question I didn’t ask. Sorry. There’s no cookie cutter way of saying that your blog dies in a “Blogging Truths Be Told” installation. I gotta shoot straight here.
So, when I hear all these different strategies (offered by bloggers) on how to achieve successes in your blogging career, it’s hard for me to lock in if I never hear DO THE DAILY GRIND (or do the work) come out of their mouths. I mean I want to know that type of stuff — the reality of what it takes to stick it out in the blogosphere. Don’t you?
I want to know the kind of strategies that truly lead to blogging success for ALL bloggers (no matter where they are in their blogging journeys). I want to know the stuff that brings the blogging dream to reality. And there’s no way around it, my friend. You’ve got to work and work hard and work the activities that create opportunity costs (sacrifices) — DAILY!
Remember: You can know all the recommended blogging strategies there are to know; but if you don’t do the selfless work that keeps your blog alive and moves it forward day after day, you ain’t going anywhere within the blogosphere. Success is in the work.
Hey? Are you up for the challenge?
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