Are you using yourself as best as you can for your blog? Sure there are lots of blogs, but none with your unique youness and that is how you can stand out, be remembered, and be remarkable. Intentionally decide to be the blogger you were born to be by tapping into the natural awesomeness you inherently possess.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Blogging can be inherently hard in terms of work (especially at the beginning), lonesome, competitive, and challenging. To not only survive but to thrive (because let’s be real, most bloggers are hoping to earn an income even in their first month) the greatest asset a blogger can have is herself.
Let’s see how a trying-hard-to-do-it-all-on-their-own blogger can take advantage of the treasured resource literally at their fingertips, their own self.
10 Tips That Will Make You The Remarkable Blogger You Were Born To Be
#1 Be the brave blogger you were born to be
You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.
Brené Brown
A big part of getting going as a blogger isn’t about what others are doing, but about what you are afraid to do yourself. Sometimes bloggers are shaking in their laptops for fear of saying the wrong thing, or not saying something well enough, exact enough, or often enough.
Basically many bloggers are constantly up against the threat in their head of, “Am I good enough to blog?”
Be honest, you don’t want to fail, right? As much as failure teaches us, stretches us, helps us progress as humans, nobody ever signs up for failure willingly.
But the biggest way to fail as a blogger is to not blog because you are afraid. Always put on your bravery and leave the fear behind.
Here are some questions to help you blog more bravely:
- How is fear getting in the way of your blogging?
- What would you do as a blogger if you weren’t afraid?
- Ten years from now will you be upset for having not done __ with your blog?
You have greatness inside you waiting to bless someone else right where they badly need it. Be brave. Go for it.
Being brave will help make you the remarkable blogger you were born to be.
[bctt tweet=”Always put on your bravery and leave the fear behind. #brave #blogger” username=”perfectplaying”]
#2 Be the creative blogger you were born to be
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
Albert Camus
What do you love creating? Are you a shutterbug who sees the world through a circular photographic lens? Are you an artist in the kitchen who never runs out of food mixtures to try? Maybe you’re awesome when it comes to planning fun trips?
Use your love for creation to the fullest extent you can on your blog. Sure, bloggers create posts but don’t necessarily pull from their treasure trove of creativity for those posts.
Maybe you could infuse your posts with more creativity with colorful headlines, innovative pictures, unique turns of phrase or informative videos. The ways to add sparkles of creativity to your blog are endless; the hardest part might be challenging yourself to ignore your reservations and just create away freely.
Your creativity with blogging could come alive in how your market yourself, how your interact with readers, how you strategize with other bloggers. Find your creative spot and blog right there.
Here are some questions to help you blog more creatively:
- What creative aspect of blogging do you enjoy the most? Can you do more of that?
- Have you been thinking of trying something new on your blog, but you’re scared to change things up? Maybe you should just go for it?
- Is there a creative endeavor you used to love that you haven’t done in a long time, but you could incorporate into your blogging?
Blogging creativity often comes down to freely using your ideas that are unlike anything you’ve seen done before. And in the grand scheme of things, blogging is still new enough to be quite creative; there’s a lot that has yet to be tapped into regarding blogging.
The cool thing about creativity is it never ends. If you happen to feel in a bit of a dry spell creatively, try a few exercises in the next 10 minutes to get your creative juices flowing.
Want to dive deeper with your creativity? Check out this highly acclaimed, and rightfully so, book on unlocking your inner creative genius – Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration.
Being creative will help make you the remarkable blogger you were born to be.
[bctt tweet=”All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. – Albert Camus #creativity” username=”perfectplaying”]
#3 Be the talented blogger you were born to be
Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.
Russel H. Conwell
Yes, you have talents. Yes, your talents can be used for your blog offering something new.
Perhaps you have a special ability to make fantastic meals that also happen to be in the frugal department – talent. I bet a talented blogger who knows how to cook a great meal and save a buck on that meal can make blog posts nobody has ever heard of before! Plus, that foodie and frugal blogger would never run out of exciting posts of budget-friendly meals that look gourmet, but only cost pennies.
Perhaps you have an eye for home decor – talent. A talented home decor blogger who knows how to make a boring couch come alive could put together a whole series of blog posts on remaking a living room simply by remaking the couch pillows! That talented home decor blogger would be loving her blogging life as she blogs out her passion for pillows and readers would gobble up those ideas that will transform their homes.
Talents are great for both the person who has them and the others who benefit by receiving those talented actions, words, and ideas. Don’t hoard your talents, share them. Don’t ignore your talents, explore them! Don’t hide your talents, express them!
Here are some questions to help you blog with your talents:
- What are some strengths people often compliment you on that you could use more often on your blog?
- Did you ever win a competition for anything and could that talent now be applied to your blogging?
- Has anyone ever told you, “I wish I could do __ like you?” Use that __ for your blog.
There’s a good chance you have more than one talent, and your blog can make use of all those amazing talents of yours! Be willing to bring as many of your talents to your blog as you can and before you know it you’ll be amazed at what comes out of you, and onto the blog page (or post).
Using your talents will help make you the remarkable blogger you were born to be.
[bctt tweet=”Don’t hoard your talents, share them. Don’t hide your talents, express them! #talents” username=”perfectplaying”]
#4 Be The Stylish blogger You were born to be
Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.
Audrey Hepburn
Have you found your own blogging style and are you sticking to it? Do you consult your own personal style when it comes to blogging or do you use it just for your wardrobe?
What about your own style could you bring out and plaster all over your blog? Blogging style is totally a thing, so much so it can revamp your entire blogging life and your whole blog. This shows up in everything from the words you use to the colors of your icons.
What if you’re a blogger who blogs about money matters and wondering how you might tap into your personal style more? Okay, so maybe you’re really into floral decor in real life, but you never show that side of yourself on your financial blog because how do money and flowers go together? I can’t think of a ton of finance blogs using flowers as their blog decor; maybe you can start a floral financial trend?!
Or, perhaps you are very animated and use jokes a lot to light up your family’s life, but you’ve never really brought your natural humor into your blogging. There’s a good chance your readers will be delighted if you add more joking around to your posts, or at least your social media and let them see the entertaining side of you instead of just the educational.
Here are some questions to help you blog with style:
- How can you design your blog to reflect your own style?
- Is there a way to change up your wording to show off your natural personality more?
- If someone sees your wardrobe and then looks at your blog, is there a natural match between the two? How can you dress up your blog as you dress up yourself?
Write in your tone, use your ideas and further your vision. Use your style to create Pinterest pins that you like; there are going to be others who totally get your pinning style and love that you’re making stuff they can relate to!
Forget the way everyone else emails their subscribers; if you have a fresh way to communicate with your followers, stir up all your inner style and change up your emails to be in line with your style.
Think of your style as a way for people to identify you. Style your blogging life in such a way as to make yourself proud, make yourself feel authentic, and to make yourself know that your blog couldn’t be anyone else’s because it’s so intimately, stylistically you.
Your style will make you the remarkable blogger you were born to be.
By the way, if you follow some money blogs that are all flowers, or any blogs that make you smile and laugh please, let me know, I want names!
[bctt tweet=”Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it. – Audrey Hepburn” username=”perfectplaying”]
#5 Be The Storyteller blogger You Were Born To Be
You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.
Erin Morgenstern
Are you drawn to stories? Do you ever listen to a speaker, be it on a TED Talk, during a sermon, or from a podcast and find that as soon as someone starts telling a great tale, you’re hooked?
Try unleashing your inner storyteller for your blogging! Find your unique story moments and use them for your blog. Tell those stories people love to hear right smack in your newsletters, all over your social media messages, thoughtfully placed in comments you leave on other blogs, and in your advice to followers.
To reinforce the value of this, just think about your favorite books, most memorable speeches, or messages that have greatly affected you – likely there are a few stories mixed in. In fact, there’s a good chance you can even recall the story you loved hearing! Ding, ding, what a way to also make your blog and your way of blogging more memorable, right?!
Just as you can recall a story that someone else told because it hit home to you, your blogging as a storyteller will also impact the hearts of your readers in an unforgettable way!
Here are some questions to help you blog with your own stories:
- What has happened in your life that is different from the lives of others around you?
- What have you struggled with while making something else happen? Use those stories.
- How can your personal history be infused into your content to make your blog posts stronger?
No matter your niche, no matter your topic, if you use your personal stories your blog will be different, it will stand out, it will be relatable. Your blog will be remarkable.
Let the stories of your life be lived again. Allow the standout moments of your life to stand out to others. Permit your personal story to become the thread woven throughout your blog in such a way as to make your blog reflect the story of your life.
Your stories will make you the remarkable blogger you were born to be.
[bctt tweet=”Blogging is a reflection of the lifelong story of the blogger. #bloglife” username=”perfectplaying”]
#6 Be the leader blogger you were born to be
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Have you dared to embrace your role as a leader when it comes to your blogging? Leadership doesn’t mean you have to have a bunch of people begging you for help, or even that you have a ton of followers or fans.
Leaders simply take people places where they haven’t been before. I bet you can do that. I bet you feel led to doing that.
Leading in blogging can look like a travel blogger leading the way to new innovative travel methods by simply living out their life so that others now want to know more about it. For instance, let’s say a travel blogger gets into traveling because they want to rescue dogs around the world. Maybe others start to think that idea is cool and beg the dog rescuing travel blogger for advice. Well, that blogger could ignore the requests for dog rescuing travel leadership, or the blogger could jump right in and start writing as many posts as possible on how others can also travel while rescuing dogs. Now that blogger is leading the way for others to also rescue dogs while traveling.
Being the leader in blogging you were born to be is about leading the way to new somethings, anythings, when called upon by others who want to go along too.
Leading in blogging could mean a garden blogger leading the way in new garden methods. Leading in blogging could be a mom blogger showing others how to get their kids to have less anxiety. This leading in blogging thing could be a productivity blogger galvanizing a new way to pick out healthy meal options in five minutes or less.
Essentially, if someone has a problem, and you have a solution, take them by the hand, and lead them to the solution that’s been working for you. Leading is helping; all good leadership is helpful in some form.
Don’t be afraid to do things other bloggers aren’t doing.
Maybe you’ll be the one to start a new blogging movement. Maybe you’ll lead the way to a new way of blogging. Use more questions than statements, use all black and white photos instead of color, spend more time on Twitter than Pinterest, whatever you feel led to do as a blogger do that and do that boldly, unapologetically, and courageously.
Here are some questions to help you be a leader in blogging:
- Is there something you’ve been feeling led to teach but haven’t yet?
- How can you help other bloggers who are struggling with something you figured out?
- Do you do something with your blog you’ve never seen done before and could you possibly train others in doing that same thing?
Go ahead and try things you don’t see other bloggers doing. Sure, post about that thing you’ve never read a post on. Do please dare to try out that idea you’ve been thinking about for months, but haven’t implemented yet.
To get to new places, people have to see new things. You likely have a newness to show people, places to take people to, ideas to introduce people to. Please, lead the way.
Your leadership will make you the remarkable blogger you were born to be.
[bctt tweet=”Leading is helping; all good leadership is helpful in some form. #leadership” username=”perfectplaying”]
#7 Be the purposeful blogger you were born to be
It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.
Winston S. Churchill
Shall we be bold and say, it’s not enough to have blogged, but our blogs should be for something? Our blogging should stand for something.
What is your purpose for your blog and what is your purpose in life? These are big questions, but worth answering.
Infuse your blog with your individual purpose and see how it transforms. Regardless of your blog’s topic, there is a purpose, and no matter who you are as a blogger, you have a purpose, both are incredible advantages to use.
Here are some questions to help you blog more purposefully:
- What would you like your blog to be remembered for?
- What would you like to be remembered for?
- How can you align your life’s purpose with your blog’s purpose?
For years, The Purpose Driven Life has been a best seller because it helps people find their reason for living; if you are having a hard time discovering your purpose, you may want to read it. Also, here are six ways to find your purpose that are very insightful.
Your blogging purpose is personal, your blogging purpose is motivational, and your blogging purpose is going to be transformational for you as a blogger and for your readers as recipients. Use all of that to bring you to blogging success.
Your purpose will make you the remarkable blogger you were born to be.
[bctt tweet=”We should be determined to live for something. – Winston S. Churchill #blogwithpurpose” username=”perfectplaying”]
#8 Be the productive blogger you were born to be
Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.
Nolan Bushnell
Productivity is often seen as a way to success for not just bloggers, but for anyone who ever tries to accomplish anything. Hence planners are everywhere, time management help is a resource people will pay tons for, and everyone’s always looking to fix up their routine.
When thinking about your blogging productivity, a good measure is the 80/20 rule.
This could mean 80% of your blogging work time being spent blogging while 20% of your blogging work time is spent learning about blogging. You could quite easily spend your entire life taking blogging courses and learning, but have no blog. Besides, a lot of the time you learn the most from your own blogging anyway. Make sure you’re not operating too heavily on the input side and not having any output to show for it.
Looking at it another way, blogging could take up 80% of your time and social media could take up 20% of your time (or reversed for bloggers who have tons of content but no social media presence). Do what you know you need to do to be the most productive you can be.
Bloggers won’t have much of a blog if they don’t take time to blog. Bloggers will struggle with getting readers if they don’t put out content for their readers to read in a timely fashion. Productivity is intimately tied to blog-ivity and like it or not, mastering productivity often leads to mastery of blogging.
Blogging productively is doing all the crucial blogging tasks you must get to on any given day, ignoring the nice tasks that can wait, and selectively choosing to use your blogging minutes, hours and days in the most productive way possible.
Here are some questions to help you blog more productively:
- Are there some ways you can be more productive as a blogger?
- What can you stop doing in order to get more done with your blog?
- Are you getting enough sleep, eating healthy foods, and making enough time to relax so your blogging hours are fueled well?
Bloggers truly need to be on guard on the productivity front in terms of not actually blogging.
There’s a need to be careful with, especially now, in taking in blogging information more than producing blogging content. Maybe you signed up for courses and spend more time in Teachable than in your WordPress dashboard. Be careful of learning, learning, and learning and never applying, applying, and applying.
Yes, learning is awesome. But learning alone doesn’t make a blog. Yes, creating magnificent graphics will dazzle and sparkle, but that alone also doesn’t make a blog.
Beware of the temptation to take in more blogging information than you are blogging out.
Remember the word productive starts with “product” as in you producing something… it doesn’t start with “learn” as in learn-ive or even “soak up” as in soak-up-ive… nope being productive inherently has a focus on a product being produced.
Now please note that a “product” in terms of being “productive” does not mean a real product being made. Sure, creating a blog product such as a book or a course counts as being productive, but producing, or making, a new post, crafting new messages on social media about your posts, or taking care of your to-dos with your email list all are producing… all are productive.
Essentially, if you are being a productive blogger, there is something to show for it. A productive blogger can say: “Here, look at this image I edited” or “Check out this idea I just came up with” or “Look at this blog post title I improved.”
If you are wondering about your blogging productivity, you needn’t look much further than want you are actually producing in a day, in a week, in a month. Ouch… that can sting… but the truth has a tendency to hurt at times.
Yep, measure your blogging by what is getting produced by your blogging… and with that measurement comes a lot of wake-up calls. Use your ability to get things done, and get things produced, to make your blog into what you know it can be.
Your productivity will make you the remarkable blogger you were born to be.
[bctt tweet=”Beware of the temptation to take in more as a blogger than you are blogging out. #bloggerlife” username=”perfectplaying”]
#9 Be the focused blogger you were born to be
Focusing is about saying no.
Steve Jobs
Wow, right?! Us bloggers sometimes think we gotta say yes to it all, be it all, become it all, blog it all. But, that’s kinda all a joke, right?
A lie really, a false view of reality. Nobody can do all of all there is possible to do in blogging, and those who come close to it are hiring people left and right.
Nope, with becoming the blogger we were born to be, we gotta zoom in on some stuff and so no to the rest. We weren’t born to be a great everything; we were born to be a great something.
Just to bring this focus thing more into focus, Mark Twain wisely said, “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
It’s hard to be the blogger you were born to be without fully focusing on your blogging when you are blogging.
Have you ever had your WordPress dashboard open, blog post to-be in front of you, but a checklist of what you need to get at the grocery store wondering through your head, a phone notification going off in your ear, and a child coming alongside you wondering what’s for dinner? Yeah, kinda impossible to get much blogging done without getting much focusing done.
One of the reasons some bloggers or would-be bloggers are held back from being the best blogger they can be is that they spend more time looking at other blogs than working on their own blogs. Where’s the focus… oh it’s kinda on other blogs… whoops.
There is a place for research, and sure a blogger should spend time commenting on other blogs, but try to spend more time crafting your own posts than reading a bunch of other blogs. Just as you are eager to read someone else’s blog, your readers are eager to read yours, so focus and deliver.
Here are some questions to help you blog with more focus:
- What could you do to minimize distractions while you blog?
- When you blog do you give your full attention to blogging or do you try to blog plus do other stuff?
- What would happen with your blog if you were able to double your focus this week?
Some people are naturally better at focusing for long periods of time than others. It is actually possible to train your brain to have more focus, just as you can train yourself to do all sorts of things.
If you honestly feel you could be a remarkable blogger by simply adding more focus to your blogging, try your best to make this focus business a priority. Our attention, just like our time, our energy, and our willpower, is limited. Maximize your focus and reduce your disruptions.
Your focus will make you the remarkable blogger you were born to be.
[bctt tweet=”Focusing is about saying no. – Steve Jobs #focus #focustoday” username=”perfectplaying”]
#10 Be the finishing blogger you were born to be
Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
There is a temptation for bloggers to start with a bang! You know, like when a superhero gets their first assignment, or when they get their superhero costume for the first time, or they find out they really do have special powers that nobody else has had ever.
There’s a good chance your blog will be special, will be awesome, and heck it may even help defeat the bad guys.
Just don’t try to be so special that you never even launch your blog. Special is awesome, but not at the expense of being hidden from everyone forever.
Here are some questions to help you finish what you start when it comes to blogging:
- Should you start rewarding yourself for finishing deadlines with your blog?
- What things should you for sure get done this week in order to feel successful as a blogger?
- Could you maybe watch television less this week in order to complete one major blogging project?
Sometimes, frankly, the only difference between “big” bloggers and wanna-be bloggers, is the “f” word… FINISH.
Yep, remarkable bloggers tend to publish posts that aren’t perfect, send out emails just because they need to be consistent, and not because they feel like it, and remarkable blogging often means finishing the task in front of you even though there’s a bright new shiny post idea begging for you to start over there.
Similar to the “f” for FINISH as being the supreme secret sauce of success, the other “f” word can be the downfall of all blogging ever… FEELINGS.
Feelings are fab, but not if they are the reason you ever do anything on your blog. Feelings will come and go, sometimes they won’t show up when it’s time to sit down and blog, but remarkable bloggers will push through the “I don’t feel like blogging today” feels and push, pull, and downright drag themselves to another finish before the day is through.
Fight for those finishes. Strive to finish something, anything. The finishes are what will make it all become a reality; the finishes are where confidence will slowly start to seep in, the finishes are when you begin to think, “Wow, I can blog.”
Given how scary it can be to begin and end, think of publishing posts as your new super special move. Perhaps your new tendency to start and finish blogging tasks at the speed of lightening can be your new pow moment.
Your finishing will make you the remarkable blogger you were born to be.
[bctt tweet=”Never give up what you want most for what you want today. ― Neal A. Maxwell #finishstrong” username=”perfectplaying”]
Blogging is full of new trends to tackle, tough technology to master, and the to-do list that never ends.
No matter what type of blogging you do, be the remarkable blogger you were born to be by allowing blogging to become an extension of the best version of you.
The world needs remarkable bloggers. The world needs you to unveil the remarkable blogger inside you.
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