This is a guest post by Mohd Aktar from web designers Taiwan.
We’re often advised that hard work will get us ahead. That’s correct to a certain extent – Working too hard can have a very negative impact on you, as well.
Long hours and the strain to keep doing much more can result in anxiety, depression, burn out.
Rather than just working hard and getting into a lot of hours, why don’t you try to find ways to work smart?
Why?
Simply because smart work indicates you’re prone to get to your goals.
In the early days of my blogging, I devoted my precious time to writing terrific blog posts and attracting visitors.
I was thrilled by every new comment on my blog and spent lots of time checking out Google Analytics.
It was all exciting and helped me grow my blog and my audience, but there was no large picture or a whopping plan behind all this effort.
Professional blogging can be quite rewarding if you have used your blog smartly. For reaching these goals, all you want to do is to work smartly and build a highly effective blog. Some methods behind successful blogging are listed here…
THE GOAL WITH ANY BLOG POST
Always consider what you want to gain from your blog and with a particular person’s blog post before you decide to write and publish it. Some of the goals you might be working towards:
• Attracting brand new site visitors
• Building a community
• Retaining existing visitors
• Starting a conversation
• Selling your own personal product/affiliate product
• Building a contact list/Twitter followers/Facebook likes
• Attracting clients
A few posts that I’ve made since I started blogging strategically are created to get viewers to take action I want them to take, such as, “like” on Facebook, browse the affiliate product recommended or sign-up to the subscriber list.
I REST MORE TO GET 100%
I’m often a bit doubtful about testimonies of people working on 3 hours sleep while they develop their blogging business. Certain, they might gain something fantastic – but I wonder if they’d have done better still with a full night’s rest.
If you’re doing anything remotely innovative or which needs focus, you’re not likely to be at anywhere close to 100% if you’re not relaxing enough. That doesn’t simply mean finding a good night’s sleep – what’s more, it implies taking time off to rest and play. That isn’t “wasting” time – it’s making certain that you can perform BEST in your blogging hours.
SMART BLOGGING TOWARDS SOMETHING GREAT
It is crucial to consider the objective of your blog and what you need any visitor to do when looking at your website. So, refocus your header, navigation menu, sidebar along with other key areas of your website in the direction of that goal.
Carrying this out tactically and implementing strategically can get you from the blogging mode and can make you more targeted towards attaining something great together with your blog. You will spend your time and effort blogging smartly rather than working hard.
If you are a blogger and are asking yourself what you should do precisely, to make it large, don’t get worried; all you have to do is to take the time to check out the successful bloggers in the community, and study a lot of things on the web to have a hang of it.
I hope you like my ideas; it has helped me become a better blogger, and wish it works for you too!
Do share with us your tips or suggestions towards blogging hard or blogging smart…
In blogging, we must be smart to take new challenges and ways to make it to a successful blogging process. Use your time wisely, don’t overuse it ‘coz it lead to depression, anxiety, and pressures that will lowering down your immune system.
Nice advice.some people suggest taking sleep every 4 hours for 1 hour at a time. But I find this too difficult to do, as long we have enough rest we should be able to do our work.
Hi Mohdakthar,
in my opinion you must work both smart and hard 🙂 And it doesn’t depend on what are you doing – blogging, writing, etc. In each work you must find balance beetwen customer needs, and your own needs 🙂
BR, Chris
Aktar, you are very right in this post. I do agree with the statement you made here – “Long hours and the strain to keep doing much more can result in anxiety, depression, burn out.”
Smart work can give you the much productivity because of you work without any anxiety, depression. So it can be really effective.
Unless you’ve clear goal for your blog, you can’t achieve success or full satisfaction. If your goals are defined only then you can take relevant steps to accomplish it, this also makes your blogging more interesting and challenging of course.
Actually, to succeed in blogging, both are required – smart work as well as hardwork! You can never become an expert in your niche, if you don’t strive for it, same time, you’ll never get desired results without smart work.
Here I should mention “pareto rule” which is also called “80/20 rule” which says, getting 80% of the results(output) with 20% efforts(input). It indirectly describes the smart work!
BTW, I really like your ideas Mohadakthar.
That’s right, Working smart is efficient compared to working hard! Working hard may be called as working with pure intention towards the goal but having not any smart use of the brain on the other hand ,working smart is nothing but working with pure intention towards the goal with adequate usage of the efforts and brain! Thanks!
I am sure , I’m a smart blogger 😀
In the initial stage, we should work hard for some time. later, when the all things get settled a, we can start working smart !
Good point Mohammad. You know what was the first thing that forced me to open the article? Any guesses? Well let me say, it was the heading! Are you Blogging Hard or Blogging Smart? Nice work. I dont think it took hard work to choose the title, it needed smart work so well done. I completely agree with you, that no doubt blogging needs hard work, but you can gain much more by blogging smartly, using ( to be more precise, utilizing ) time properly is very important.
Thanks for the share
This is actually a thought provoking subject for me as I never thought about it this way. Now that you put it into perspective, I guess I may have been blogging hard instead of blogging smart. It seems I may have to blog smart or do both.