Resolutions and opportunities
I’ve been giving a lot of thought to new years resolutions, why we create them and what they do to us. Last year I had several blog posts worth. Did I achieve them all? No, sometimes because the scope was too huge, and sometimes because as the year went on they lost relevance or new things came up that changed the game.
This year I am trying a completely different tack. I am shunning my old standby the list and going with a single new years resolution:
Identify opportunities and seize them
Last year I started to see how powerful this could be. I took a massive step forward in my career mindset just by being open to new opportunities. I liked it so much I want to dedicate my year to this single premise. And the best thing is that this doesn’t just refer to work, everything is an opportunity waiting to be seized.
What opportunities will you seize in 2012?
Achieving my goals bit by bit…blogging
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I want to build up my blogging, and my affiliate earnings, I want to add on some extra revenue streams as a fun funds funnel (yes that is what I’m calling it!).
This one is easy… In principle anyway, all I need to do is blog more!
I have to use the tools at my disposal to write posts. Instead of focussing on creating the long rambles you all know and love (hehe) I need to remember that I can create short posts too! I can quickly write one on my iPad or my phone or computer. I want to keep the post quality good, but I want to increase their frequency and my output. I also want to blog more about my story and processes.
To that end, i’m joining the post a week movement at WordPress. They email suggestions for posts, we send them back, and tag them. I’d join post a day, but I know myself and don’t want to start too fast out of the gate, let’s see how we go here first. I also want to reply to comments more, and ask questions, create polls, fun things!
As far as affiliate earnings go, currently I am making enough to support my online costs and my growing daz3d habit. They enabled me to go slightly nuts at the sales last year! It’s fun, almost like free money. I make this promise to you though, it will be unobtrusive, and only about products and stores that I personally use and like. I prefer to work more on the lines of content rather than sales. I will be creating another blog or two to work more directly with affiliate sales later, again with products I believe in. The extra revenue streams involve some digital art and book ideas for kids that have been inspired by Erica. I may or may not link to them here, but rest assured, this blog will stay the same! Just, I hope, better and more reliable than before.
Interesting would be good too 
So, over to you, what are your tips for blogging in the new year?
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