To live a Blog Income Life you have to do some planning and some planting. Read on.
Living the Blog Income Life to me means that I control my schedule and if I want, I can take a day in the middle of the week and go play. A friend and I did just that this Wednesday. Neither of us had been to Whistler for a while and we thought we should take a gander out that way to see how the Sea to Sky Highway had been improved and what the 2010 Olympic ski site looks like today.
It was a great day.
Our planning wasn’t the best — that’s what happens when you do things on the spur of the moment. Unbeknownst to us many of the attractions had shut down last Sunday, not to be reopened until after American Thanksgiving weekend which traditionally is the start of the winter season – so no gondola ride, no peak to peak ride, no decadent dining.
Would have been nice. It did not matter. We had a wonderful time anyway.
We walked throughout the village, stopped in to the vacant shops and chatted up the sales associates many of whom are Australian – for one brief moment I thought I had been transported to a different country.
Then I saw something that caught my attention. A crew of gardeners were planting. They were working on a freshly dug patch of earth in front of the Fairmont Hotel. They had the bulbs set out in the exact spots they would be dug into the ground and the various bulbs were spaced according to whether they were tulips, daffodils or alium. I was so intrigued that we stopped to chat with the gardeners and I took a picture.
This got me thinking. They were planting today for results that would be seen in the spring – perhaps as long as five months down the road. For months there will be no sign of the fruits … errr flowers … of their labor. Then one day, little green shoots will start poking their way out of the ground. Hardly anyone will notice them. The shoots will keep growing until one day there are buds on the ends of the stems and then suddenly they will bloom, rewarding us with a bountiful feast of beauty and color.
Blogging is the same thing. At the beginning when we start posting blogs we do not see instant results. Sometimes there is no traffic at all for the first few months. Then visitors begin to drop in in dribs and drabs. Some like what you blog about and subscribe to your RSS feed, or bookmark your blog, maybe even make a comment on your post. Slowly your blog begins to get noticed. It begins to bloom.
Back when I was in the corporate world we were always told that what we do today will begin to bear fruit months down the road. Its never instantaneous. Three to six months is common. In blogging fresh content can bring you an instant positive blip on your stats chart, but what you are really doing is planting bulbs for your future. The more planting you do the sooner the reward of being able to live a Blog Income Life.
