One of the sad experience in blogging is the time we lose our readers. Seasons come and go, and sadly readers come and go as well. This blog has the same experience, but the art is really how we can stay positive when that happens. Losing readers is unavoidable as a part of your growth as a blogger or a people of influence. You can take it as a failure, or you can take it as a success. It’s really about perspective.
If you ask me, then these are some of the reasons why you can smile and stay positive, even when you lose readership…
1. Your readers are growing…
Scott H. Young recently wrote a mind-boggling article in his blog, The Purpose of This Website is to Lose Its Readers. It really opened my eyes on the experience, more than a reason to smile, he put losing his readers as a goal or purpose to achieve. Isn’t that like school graduation? Imagine what will happen if school doesn’t want to lose its students. The students will never be graduated and they will never step into another phase of their life.
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Have you learned cycling when you are below 15 years old?
If you do, then you are very fortunate. As I shared earlier I learned cycling only about few weeks ago, and I still need to improve my cycling a lot. But the lesson taught me something, the lesson taught me to start living my life.
Today is the Blog Action Day, the day where a lot of bloggers and podcasters around the world talk about the same topic, and it’s all about Poverty this year. I won’t share with you about physical poverty, but I want to share about mental poverty, the poverty mindset, one that often steals your reasons for smile.
The first lesson: Riding BMW
Yes, I got poverty, it’s the poverty of confidence, and the very first reason I can remember is because of the fact that I could not cycle. For some it might not be a big deal, but I was growing up in the place where many people are cycling, and it’s kind of awkward for not being able to cycle. While I couldn’t cycle, I was commuting with my BMW. And no, it’s not the rich man’s BMW; it was the poverty’s BMW: bitching, moaning and whining.
Have you have ever been caned when you were small before?
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I’m getting older. It was my second birthday in this year. As the human, I celebrated my 26th birthday last August. As the blogger, I celebrated my birthday again last September.
I started blogging 2 years ago. My first post is published on the 28th September 2006. It was a desperate moment and the blog was born with a quote that really touched me…
When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.
-Unknown
And then… I stopped blogging for one full year. Only at the end of September 2007, I’m inspired by a friend, Darryl, to continue my own blog. I took a Wordpress account and even, in the month of October 2007, I made the commitment to blog everyday. I managed to do it, with hard work. Most of the posts are short and as the blog grows, my post is getting longer.
November 2007, I moved my blog from Wordpress.com to my own domain. To be exact it is 12 November 2007, the day when I got into the ‘corridor’. It will be the day that I will consider as the birthday of Reason-4-Smile Weblog.
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When should you quit? And when should you stick?
This is the second book from Seth Godin that I read after The Meatball Sundae. This time it shared about whether we should quit or not. It’s great if we can become whoever we want, but to be the best at something, we need to quit something.
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