How To Write Blogging Resolutions You’ll Actually Stick To
How To Write Blogging Resolutions You’ll Actually Stick To - With Christmas over and the New Year almost upon us, you might be thinking of your New Year resolutions. If you’re looking to improve your blog next year, here are some tips to help you set resolutions you’ll actually stick to.
1. Be Specific
To stand any chance of achieving your resolutions, you’ve got to set clear goals that can be measured. That way, you’ll know when you’ve done what you set out to do.
For instance, if you want to attract more subscribers, set yourself a target – such as 500 subscribers, or 1000. Don’t just say you want “more”, or you’ll achieve your goal as soon as you get 1 more subscriber.
2. Be Ambitious
If your resolutions are too easy to achieve, you may start to get complacent. This means you won’t push yourself to do more with your blog, and you may lose interest in making any improvements at all.
Try to set goals that will challenge you, and that won’t just occur naturally whether you try or not.
3. Be Realistic
Although it’s good to be ambitious, it’s important not to get carried away and aim for something you stand virtually no chance of achieving.
How to know whether something is possible or not is really down to you to decide. If it’s your first year setting resolutions and your blog has, say, 50 subscribers – don’t aim to achieve 10,000 subscribers.
Instead, go for something you can control more easily – such as writing one guest post every month, or forcing yourself to share someone else’s post every time you share one of your own.
4. Break Down the Big Things
If you’ve come up with a big resolution, it’s much better to break it up into several smaller goals instead of trying to tackle it as a single task.
If it’s something that wouldn’t be much of an achievement if you don’t complete all of the steps, but you can still break it into stages, list it as one goal with several steps.
With larger goals, it’s not ideal to view them with a simple achieved/failed criteria. If you’ve completed 90% of the work, that’s still a good achievement. Of course, this only applies if the only time limit is the one you’ve set yourself. Cooking Christmas dinner for your family isn’t something you can really achieve in March, for instance.
5. Don’t Set Too Many Goals
Once you start to set your resolutions, don’t go crazy and set loads. If you write a long list of 50 things you’d like to do next year, you’re probably less likely to achieve them than if you stick to a list of 5-10 goals – just enough for you to remember them all. I’ve found this is the case when setting too many different targets at once.
It’s not so bad if you come up with lots of small objectives that are quite closely related – especially if you give quite specific timescales for them.
6. List Your Resolutions on Your Blog
When you’ve come up with your resolutions, publish them on your blog. As you achieve each goal, update the list with the date you accomplished that objective. By sharing your goals, you may find it pushes you to achieve them.
Unless you make significant progress on your resolutions, try to avoid publishing a new post every time you tick something off. You could include a note as part of a weekly round-up, an email newsletter, on your Facebook page or as a quick post on Twitter.
7. Once a Year is Not Enough
If you only set objectives once a year, you’re going to forget about them as the year gets into full swing. While you may glance at your resolutions through the year, you may not feel much of a push to do them – after all, there’s the whole year to spare.
Instead of falling into this trap, set short-term goals that you can achieve within the first month of the year. For the larger goals, review them every 2-4 weeks. If you achieve a goal – or if you achieve them all – don’t give yourself the rest of the year off! Think of some new resolutions to fill the gap. You may then achieve a lot more than you anticipated.
Perhaps the most logical resolutions are the ones you work on every week, or every month, that never really end. Once you get used to them, they may become part of your normal routine, much like writing new blog posts. In this case, you won’t need to set the same resolutions every year.
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