Content Creation Secrets

Have you seriously asked yourself this question and honestly answered it?

When I started this blog, I made myself the promise of making daily posts no matter what.

But keeping the promise has been anything but easy. From experience you and I know we can make a promise at the spur of the moment and then later have doubts about keeping it.

While thinking about whether I could keep the promise, I decided that I could better understand my challenge and measure up to it if I ask myself what I really wanted from my blog.

This is a simple question that I did not consider when I started this blog.

I now decided to answer the question honestly.

I wanted this blog to help me cultivate writing discipline. I’m proud to say that I came to the blog with some built-in discipline. I write at least a thousand words each day. Now that I’m writing for some content sites, I have no choice but to write more than my minimum quota.

Still, I feel that the writing discipline I have cultivated is not good enough. It’s not good enough for me to write on various topics each day for the content sites.

I wanted to cultivate the daily discipline of writing on a single subject or theme – in my case writing about content creation.

When I found doubts creeping in about the ability to write on a single theme daily, I asked myself, “Do I want really to cultivate such a writing discipline through my blog?”

That usually settles the matter and gives me the tonic to continue, to eliminate the pain of thinking up topics to write about.

Since I’m beginning to get what I want from my blog, I don’t foresee any problems with making daily posts here.

Now, that’s all fine and fantastic if everything is going well. But what if you want a specific thing from your blog and you’re not getting it?

What will you do if giving up is not an option?
Say for instance you want your blog to make money for you.

You have blogged for months and you’ve not made any money or very little of it.

What would you do? You could work out a plan on how you can make more money with your blog.

You could list down all the action steps – sign up for revenue-sharing programs, buy ebooks on traffic generation tactics, make forum posts, sign up with social bookmaking sites, comment in blogs with high Pagerank and so on.

Well, this is a fine action plan and I’ve done this sort of thing in the past.

But nowadays I know that this kind of action plan does not really work. When I look at the list, I usually get overwhelmed and put off doing anything on it.

The secret I discovered is not to concentrate on a list of things. You have to focus on just one thing. That thing does not necessarily have to help you directly get what you want – in this instance make money.

It must help you get nearer to what you want. Yes, it must help you move in the right direction.

For instance, if you want to make money with your blog, you can take just one step for the time being – sign up for a blog at today.com.

In my case I want to make daily blog posts at contentcreationsecrets.today.com. Instead of setting out to write many posts in advance (I know I can never do this because of other writing commitments), I just write down the titles of the blog posts I could write.

I can write the titles anywhere – at my desk, at a coffee shop or even at the park. I can easily write a few within minutes.

Then all I have to do is to reflect on these titles without straining myself. This is important because I need energy for other writing assignments.

Usually writing the titles down is effective for me. When it’s time to write (I allocate time in the morning for blog posts), the words flow because the subconscious has been given enough time to work the content out.

So, the key to keeping your blog going is to honestly answer what you want from your blog. When that question is answered, do just ONE thing that will put you on the right track.

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