What I should Ignore To Keep Blogging

Hi.

I miss blogging. Like, I miss actively blogging. 

It's not because I don't have things to blog about anymore, but it's more that I'm living my busy life and have kept procrastinating on blogging. Apart from that, things I expected to have while blogging that I didn't get made me sometimes lose the spark to blog. I think I need to start afresh having such a mindset.

The Followers

I tended to keep track of my number of followers. I thought having more followers meant you had a better blog. But then after the blog achieved a certain number of followers, I no longer cared about it, especially since I knew that not all the followers in my list actually read the blog. Blog is not a social media like Instagram or Facebook anyways. 

The Stats

Then, I cared about the stats instead. I used to have thousands, even tenths of thousands, of views per post, which to me was an achievement accomplished. After quite some time, my views per post dropped to hundreds or tenths only. I think this is also influenced by most of my followers, who are no longer active in blogging which led to me being discouraged to blog. I now want to stop worrying about the stats. I practice a mindset to being back to why I started blogging in the first place - because I love writing. Not because I actually want people to read what I write. 

The Theme

The blog's look is one of the things that attract people. I often feel insecure about the beautiful themes that others use while mine looks hideous. Nope, I don't think I can change this mindset and will always be on the edge of improving my blog themes. I mean, I myself love a blog with an aesthetic look.

Making Money

I used to have a consistent income using my blog. It's been years since then. But it doesn't concern me anymore as I don't do full-time blogging as a job, but it's my hobby. 

An Interesting Content

I care a lot about my blog content and the topics I write. I mostly got the inspiration to write from reading other people's blogs. But at the same time, I often feel down that I can't write as good as other people. I should stop feeling down. I think whatever things that I write is a learning process for me to be better at writing and creating interesting content on my blog. The most important thing is, I should write, and write, and write. 

Can you bloggers relate to these things I should ignore to keep blogging?

Till then,

Lya.