Especially if one blogs with the motive of wanting to make money with their blogs. Like me. Hah. Maybe I have been reading too many blogs about how you can make a decent living through blogging. Money opens the eyes and clouds the mind. So much so that after sometimes we kind of go mad, looking for the right formula to blogging richness. It becomes an obsession and not one day passes by without me hopping high and low, looking for that elusive route.
The situation is made worse for the very fact that there are bloggers that indeed makes a decent lot from blogging. Whether what they reported in their blogs are real or half truths, the mind, made nimble by over excessive imagination of getting rich, gobbled up these stories like alligators with pieces of meat thrown towards them. Trouble starts to brew when they fail to find that proverbial piece of meat and like a hungry alligator they will start to snap at everything in sight.
With a mind blurred by an overdose of the blinking dollar sign above our heads, our sense of direction begins to falter. We become compulsive and finds justifications for every thing we do, though knowing semi consciously, that the white angel on our right shoulder keeps tapping us to trying to tell us this is wrong. We could not care less anymore and whatever or whoever tells us that this is the way to blogging richness, we start to follow blindly. We slowly mutate into the Hannibal of the Blogosphere. We look quite normal outside, but we have turned utterly mad inside.
We go on a blog killing rampage and we become a serial blog killer. Starting one blog after another and abandoning them after a few months because it was not working the way the gurus have professed that it would, we leave a trail of dead blogs laying around indecently dormant for everyone to see, but the madness continues, with no end in sight………..
With so many dead blogs around, too bad blogs don’t need obituaries or funerals. If not sure can make money starting funeral parlours for blogs. lol
It’s too easy starting up a blog or online business. But many fail because they don’t have a plan or never did enough research. Or have unrealistic expectations.
i guess if your primary motivation is purely monetary-based on starting a blog…there are really a big chance of abandoning it after a few months IF you did not do your homework in advance.
Keep holding on, when other bloggers are giving up, stay on and you shall prevail.
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