It didn’t take long for me to realize that not only was that a strategy for failure, but that I wasn’t going to have focus, which leads me to Gerrit’s point.

Gerrit states a harsh reality, and being that I’ve only been actively blogging at my new blog for a few weeks, it’s one that runs through my mind frequently, that is “does my blog capture anyone’s attention?” Is it worth a second visit?

I suppose only time will tell. But I do think that Gerrit nails it by highlighting the fact that “your” goal has to relate to “your” reader or it’s as good as not having a goal at all.

Good stuff people.
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1. I want to focus on Canadian topics more often.
2. I want to get better at writing with practice
3. I want to have more posts written by me that aren’t reviews and the like.
4. I want to have more than 100 visitors/day

I know you don’t want to hear “I’m working on it” but I haven’t decided completely what direction my blog should go in so making concrete goals is kind of hard right now.
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I’m enjoying your blog. Thanks!

I find it so interesting that as I pose myself a question, so the Universe nudges me towards an answer.

Just yesterday I was ruminating about the fact that I have no purpose, passion, one big idea (call it what you will), in short, nothing that excites me!

I had the exact thought you mentioned in your post: I feel like a person who has a map but no destination.

For anyone else who finds themself in my position, Steve Pavlina offers good, practical advice on how to discover your life’s purpose, which I believe will go a long way to helping us define our blog’s goals as well.

Jamie, a quick heads up, your post had a few typos (glitches). I’m a writer/copy editor, if you’d like to do an energy exchange I’d be more than happy to check your writing before you post.

Cheers

99% of the blogs I’ve seen aren’t worth a second visit, mainly because the people who own it can’t write good enough to keep an audience interested.
Also, what they write about doesn’t interest me.

The couple of blogs worth reading are a pleasure to read because the blogger knows how to write and the blogger writes about something that’s interesting for me. I regard those blogs as an alternative for printed media; I read them because I enjoy reading them and I learn something by doing so.

So, looking at it from the consumer side, I think a goal of a blog can (should?) be to write high quality articles that will capture an audience. Do it for some time and when the inspiration is gone or you don’t enjoy doing it anymore, just quit and start doing something else.
Some people will write all their lives; others will be through after some years or even months.

It doesn’t matter if you make a great income with your blog or if it’s a hobby.
When the moment is there just quit and move on.
The journey is the goal.
That’s the way I have been living my life; it brought me a very interesting and rewarding career.

Part of it talked about how we view individual success compared to success of others, and how you being successful means achieving your set goals, not fulfilling what society and media view as success.

After writing that essay I knew I should set some life goals. Mind you im still 18 but after reading your post and you putting it into a new context I feel like me not defining an ultimate goal for my blog(s) and even projects ultimately cause my failure.

Never have I sat down and said my end goal aloud. I’ve always jumped into things with a set of short term goals, and once I achieved those my motivation disappeared, and in time my blog went with it.

I want to kick myself in the face but instead I’m going to go back and try to find that ultimate goal in hopes that my motivation will come with it.

The only question I have to you is, Do the goals necessarily need to be measurable? Why cant one have a subjective or qualitative goal?