ONE Factor To Avoid Loosing Interest In Your Blog

The 4 factors that cause me to start loosing interest.

1. Don’t see my readership increasing
2. Don’t see my subscribers increasing.
3. Ran out of Blogging Ideas.
4. No one is commenting.

The ONE factor that keeps me going with renewed vigor each time.

Okay, take this as a lame attempt to lengthened this post, but I hope this analogy will strengthen my point of argument. Lets use a simple example of the car you are driving or maybe even the shirt you wear to work everyday.

You have been driving your blue colored car for 5 years. In the beginning when the paintwork was still new and shiny, you were all full of jest driving the car, looking for every small excuse to take the car for a spin. You sacrifice your weekends pampering the car, making sure everything is spick and span.

Over the years, the car has lost it’s shine. You are even too lazy to start and drive the car downtown to get your favorite six pack. It has turned into a tool that you use to get to and fro from your office to your house. After that, you leave it in the garage, not even turning to give it a second look after parking it in. (Start Imagining that the car is your Blog now)

One day, you landed yourself a good deal and made some extra money. You decide to do up your old junk. Gave a new coat of paint. Overhauled the whole engine. New upholsteries and carpeting. It was in the workshop for a whole month and when finally the car was delivered to you, Voila! the feeling that you had for the car on the first day you got it, all came rushing back. The thrill of driving the car again makes you look forward to the next morning.

Now lets get back to the point where I asked you to imagine your blog as the car. You are so used to your blog now that you are really feeling stale. If the 4 factors mentioned in paragraph one is non existent, your interest would not have dwindled so fast, for you will be kept too busy to stare at your blog for hours to come, with nothing to do. What you should do now is Change Your Blog Theme!

Make sure you get a theme that you really like. Mod it if you have the knowledge. Add in some cool stuffs like a new personalized header or a nicely designed logo. Do whaever you can to make it your baby. I guarantee you will find back your vigor to start updating your blog again. You get a new sense of hope. You will see a light at the horizon. You won’t mind at all about no increase in readership or subscribers. You won’t bother about no one commenting. All because you are too busy admiring your blog. You can stare it at for hours without getting fed up with it. You feel with the pride each time you log in to your own blog and miraculously, you seemed to be full of ideas on what to write now.

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