Negative things keep happening to everyone. Do you get frustrated or do you try to find the hiding positive in the negative?
It is so common for people to face negatives. By negatives, I mean those things that you don’t want to happen. Let us focus on the blogging part of our life alone now.
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Scenario 1 – Broken Blog Theme
You start a blog and in just few days your blog theme doesn’t function properly due to some change you did in the code while editing your blog sidebar. Would you sit down and get angry over your blog? I know people who quit blogging because things don’t go their way.
What should you do?
Instead of getting angry at yourself for editing the sidebar, sit straight for a moment. Clear the fear in your mind. Login to a social networking site (me in twitter) or instant messenger and ask for your friends for help. Do what your (trusted) friend says.
The hidden positive
You know how to solve the issue that you faced. So now you don’t need to be afraid again when editing your blog’s code. Also you will understand how helpful your friends are.
Scenario 2 – Comment Spam
This happens for almost every blog. It is funny how the spammers get to know about your blog before the search engines even index it. If your blog doesn’t receive comment spam, you can consider yourself lucky or your blog is not worth being in the internet. Okay maybe that is too much. Anyway, don’t get angry with the spam comments.
What you should do?
Install Akismet plugin for WordPress. If you still get many spam comments, especially from a particular IP address, block that IP address.
The hidden positive
See the spam comments this way. The more spam comments you get, more popular your blog is. In mathematical terms:
Comment spam is directly proportional to your blogs popularity.
The next time you receive spam comments, be happy that your blog got one step more popular.
Scenario 3 – A Big $0 Income from Your Blog
Blogs will not earn you money (a living) unless you get huge traffic. It won’t earn you even a penny when you are starting unless you are really good at it. I never earned a penny on the first day. Sometimes you won’t earn money after 1, 2 or even 6 months.
What you should do?
This is the tough period in blogging. Once you cross this, you will start earning money (I cannot guarantee a living). Keep your focus on blogging and do it as a hobby. This way it will never bore you when you are waiting for the numbers to appear in your paypal or adsense account.
The hidden positive
You will learn how not to quit when you are facing hard challenges in your life. It will help you keep going even when the target you want to achieve is so far from you.
Almost every negative has a positive. You should only be happy when you are facing a negative.
A negative can teach you a lot more than what a positive can teach you.
So keep going in your life looking for the positives in every negative.
Please share your views in the comments.
Probably to be honest you are right. You must never feel for the negatives. Good post Ram