A very bad habit
This site is about habits for smart people. I do consider myself smart, and other people tell me I am smart.
Smart people can have good habits, and we should strive to keep doing these good things. We can also have bad habits, and we should work to try to overcome our bad habits.
One bad habit is setting up a website, having good ideas on how to populate that site with informative and entertaining content, and then dropping the ball. That is what I’ve done on this site. I got it started, and wrote some articles, interesting ones, I hope. But, I dropped the ball. I stopped posting new content here. That is something that is a bad habit, and I want to address that.
Gotta get back to the keyboard!
There are multiple ways to address something that has become a bad habit. In this case, the bad habit of ignoring this site. I can see two ways of addressing this bad habit.
- I can simply shut down the site and move on with something else. By doing this, I no longer need to worry myself about needing to write articles to put here.
- I can push myself to change this habit, turn it around, and start posting new content here.
I choose to do #2. I am planning to redouble my efforts and start posting content here for those who read the site to enjoy. Frankly, I am lucky if I still have readers here, because I have ignored the site, and most readers have probably already given up on finding interesting content here. However, there are things I can do to win readers back, and to start building up new readers here. I intend to do those things.
It takes time to build an audience, no doubt about that. For those who are brand new at blogging, it can take a very long time. Even if you have great content, great insight and such, it just takes time for people to find you. In my case, it is easier to gain a loyal following of leaders, because I already have other popular sites. By promoting this site to my already loyal readers on other sites, I can build up a following here more quickly than somebody who is just getting started. However, the downside is that if you go to the well too often, and then you don’t delivery, well, you risk the chance of losing followers, or if they continue following you on other sites, they just won’t follow you on new sites, because they feel that you lack the commitment to keep it going.
I want to turn that around. I want to develop a new good habit of delivering good relevant content here.
Check back and see how I do. It is my current plan to start adding a couple of new articles here every week. Hope to see you again!