The last few months blogging has been great and have been a nightmare at the same time. I started at the beginning of August 2006, so I am in my 4th month of blogging. The reason I started writing a blog was down to three people: Jack Black from Mindstore. Jack is a Scottish motivational speaker and I went to see him in Glasgow 2 times in 1995 and again in 1996 and his seminars changed my thinking about my life. When I went the second time I said to my friend ‘That’s what I want to do with my life’. I wanted to affect people’s life so they would have the power to change themselves, give them the tools so to speak. So 10 years on I have started that dream and I am only in the beginning phase and writing a blog is helping the dream along. Steve Pavlina from stevepavlina.com - Steve was the inspiration for the blog. I found Steve’s site by accident and suddenly saw a way of reaching a potentially huge audience. His posts were also inspiring and I found he thought along the same lines as me, which I thought were quite ‘out there’, it turned out I wasn’t the only one. I then asked myself how I was going to devote time to blogging when I had a full time job, a part time web design business and a family. Steve’s site gave some helpful tips. Darren Rowse from problogger.net - Gave me the logistical information I needed to start up the blog and continue it. His site is chock full of helpful information for any blogger just starting out of for seasoned pro’s. It’s been a tough 4 months as I wasn’t getting anybody to the site, I was getting around 10-20 visitors per day in the first month which rose to around 50 per day in September, 100 per day in October and to around 200 per day in November. If it keeps going the way it’s going I should be reaching my goal of 1000 visitors per day by February 2007. I also noticed the lack of comments, which frustrated me for a while but when I let the need go they started commenting. I also concentrated on making money from Google adsense and I have recently let that need go also and the money is starting to trickle in August - $0.00 September - $5.80 October - $12.74 November - $4.81 (so far) And about $28 from donations. Also because of my blog I managed to secure the management of another blog at around $540 per month So why do I keep going at this blog when there is seemingly so little in it for me? This is a question a lot of bloggers ask themselves and a lot of them give up and stop blogging altogether. I won’t give up, I want to be talking about my blog in 2 years time and say ‘this is where my blog took me’ like Steve Pavlina or Darren Rowse. The top 10 reasons: 10) To make some money: admittedly not a lot of money is made unless you’ve been going for a while and you done all the right things and managed to get a good following. 9) To learn something new

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