Successful bloggers know one thing. Blogging succeeds because the blogger is disciplined, committed and lives a lifestyle of inquiry. Few humans have this capacity, so few humans can succeed as bloggers.
I remember many years ago, when I started this blog, I didn't give this fundamentals a thought, and as many as have started a blog at one time or the other, setting out without understanding how to develop a successful blog, ends with the fizzling out into nothingness of another failed venture, conscripted to the annals of an inglorious past of mere wishes.
Mere wishes don't make quadruplets for commuting for the beggarly. Blogging is a verb. Verbs are synonymous with doing; with activity and action. This action borders on constant research and experiencing a life that's significant for the purpose of others to learn and live. To succeed in this, bloggers must be adventurers that engage, learn and disseminate their lifestyles and that of others they've engaged and learnt from. Thus bloggers are active verbs. They are doers.
To be a doer, certain concepts of living must be alien to the blogger. The spirit of lethargy, drabness and procrastination is the enemy of successful blogging. The ability to create order and impose authority over the mental space by the blogger assists in achieving predetermined attainable goals.
Now, note that knowledge of a thing does not necessarily infer that that thing is functionally in existence. The greatest purpose of knowledge is the creation of value. Value can only be worthy in functional existence. Blogs add value when they function within their purpose. There has to be function before form adds value. For blogs to function, bloggers must be active and thus functional in adding value.
As we arrive at a season of assessment, every human alive arrives with it, particularly a season evaluating given potentials; if evaluation ends in assessment of converted potentials or discovers that potentials have stayed potentials and not converted into skills that add value, then the assessed will be found wanting and consequences will be commensurate to the dormancy of the potential.
As I once again attempt to access the blogging world and be an accomplished blogger in blogosphere, the basics of blogging have been laid bare and it's up to me to subject my existence to a life of discipline. I hope you'll join me on this journey and act for me as a cheerleader and an opponent in assisting in attaining my goals.
