20 Hot Tips to Succeed as a Blogger – Tip 19: Reward Yourself

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 at 12:00 pm

This entry is part 19 of 19 in the series 20 Hot Tips to Succeed as a Blogger

The power to achieve outstanding result lies in the power of motivation.

Welcome back, I believe you have been following this series from the beginning. If not, I can confidently tell you that you have been missing out, but not to worry, you can still go ahead and read all the previous parts of the series by going to: 20 hot tips to succeed as a blogger complete series.

Ok, back to the business of the day. Mind you I’ll try to keep today’s post as short and brief as possible while making it as informative as usual.

If you have been noticing from the beginning of this series, you’ll have seen that contrary to many of the tips you must have read somewhere else teaching you; one cheat, hack or the other on how to succeed as a blogger, I have taken a rather unique and I believe very important angle, that is; that which affects your state of mind, because that’s where the power to achieve your desired results lies.

It doesn’t matter how many cheat, hack, tricks, etc, you know, you’ll still be doomed to failure if you have the wrong mindset; a rich man with the mind of a poor man, is unquestionably still a poor man; it’s just a matter of time. And achieving success as a blogger is no exception. Therefore, don’t look down on the ideas you have gotten from me thus far, they holds the motivation your mind needs to propel your entire being into achieving your desire success.

And talking about motivation, one of the greatest motivation that will ginger you to greater success is “rewarding yourself” when you achieve a certain milestone in your blogging activities. But, of course, you should know that it begins with setting goals for yourself, else it will be hard to know when you have actually reach a milestone where you need to reward yourself.

Rewarding yourself

Rewarding yourself, is a very powerful way of keeping yourself highly motivated to keep pushing forward for success. So, don’t you dare joke with the power it holds. And more so, it’s not something that’s actually hard to do, at least if all the technical stuffs you have learned about succeeding as a blogger have been taking you ages to implement, this is a very easy one to consider.

How to rightly implement this idea?

Very easy, begin to set feasible goals and target for yourself. They don’t have to be complicated, just simple bits of the total success you’re aiming at. Take for instance; I aim to reach a 10k RSS reader within the next 3 months (my main target), I can then set a milestone of 4k, 8k and the 10k as the stage of my reward; meaning when I reach 4k RSS reader I have qualify for a reward, and then 8k and then 10k which is my main target.

How can you reward yourself?

Well it’s actually based on person preference but it’s all about giving yourself a treat, buy yourself something a bit expensive, that you really love, take off on a vacation, go out on some shopping spree or you may even go see a movies you have been longing to see. Just anything exotic that you love. I’ve one read Jimmy Brown say’s that what he love to do to reward himself is to make sure to sell millions of copies, of the product for which the milestone was reached. That not bad at all, don’t you think……lol

“Reward” is the power behind all the outstanding exploit we hear everyday from diverse contest all around us. Several, time it has ginger result beyond the wildest imagination of both the contestants, organizers and even the spectators. Oh! Yes that’s how great the power of “Reward” can be and have been.

Final Thought

Begin now to set feasible milestones ‘in your blogging activities’, where you can treat yourself to some goodies and make sure to be very diligent and discipline about it. Don’t take it for granted; if you have plan to reward yourself with something when you reach a certain milestone, for goodness sake, make sure you keep that word. Don’t get dishonest with that person called; YOU. If you do, he will disappoint you when you need Him other times.