The is a guest post submitted by Zul of SkorCareer. All content and opinions belong to the author.
“I am quitting blogging.” A friend told me some time ago. He started blogging 3 months back now and wanted to call it a day.
“What?” I am kinda surprised.
“Yes. You heard me right. I am quitting blogging. In fact, I have deleted the contents of my blog. It’s clean now. Empty. Nothing in it.”
“Why? It’s been only 3 months. Don’t you think it’s too early to throw in the towel?”
“No, lah. I had enough already. I am not even sure I did the right thing by jumping into this blogging thing in the first place. I have less than one dollar in my Adsense income and it does not seem to grow. Plus I am also running out of idea to write so my blog is as good as dead.” It seems like there’s no turning back for him.
3 months passed. One day, he came back.
“I am blogging again.”
And so he did. And after another 3 months, guess what, the same thing happened again. He told me he doesn’t to write again. I am not sure if he would ever come back.
This friend went a full circle from writing his first blog entry into making a full stop – twice - in a space of a year, and still ended up nowhere. Had he continue writing short entries in his first blog twice per week, in a year his blog would have grown into having more than 100 articles. Within a year his blog would have a page rank, some link backs, generated a few loyal readers and his income is very likely to grow if he monetizes it right.
It’s very true when motivators said that many people in their life quit at the tip of their success. Just think of the time we boil water. For a good 2 minutes, as the water is heating up, we barely see any changes. But on the molecular level, the H20 particles are agitating, chemical bonds are breaking and once the temperature hits 100 degrees, there’s no stopping it to boil.
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