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100 Days of blogging had all the emotions from excitement to frustration, thrill to boredom act now to procrastination.

1. Goal setting: I knew how important goal setting is to the success of any undertaking, but the best part was that, I got to brainstorm and categories my Goals and had fun in making an action plan, and then following on the action plan. No I did not achieve all the goals in the defined time frame, but I was much closer to the goal. “Without goals we are like a floating cork in the ocean.”
2. Persistence and consistence: How many time I had to force myself to do something for the blog, like writing a post, following on the comments left by the readers and leave comments of value on other bloggers post. Sometimes I had that urge to let it go and I would see the drop in the number of visitors, would pick myself up again and follow the action plan as mentioned in the previous point. “Keep on keeping on…”
3. Content is the king: You write it or have others write for you, but the soul of a blog lies in the quality content, I myself have seen the huge spike in the visitors and comments when there was a post of some value to the reader.
4. Find the passion: I also had heard this saying do what you love and the money will follow, in my view earlier it was I am more interested in the money part, what passion, it is for sissies…. I can do the work and want the money to follow, from my experience of 100 days of blogging I am willing to change the camp and follow what the folks already said. “Passion can move mountains”
5. Relate to your audience: It is very important to say what you have on your mind and not appreciate the feed back, but then it is one way street to nowhere, I have found some good people who are very helpful and willing to share their knowledge and expertise, when I left a comment on their site/blog and got a response back. “No traffice jams on two way street” (Not sure about that in my hood… ::smile::)
6. Role Model or Mentor to follow: If I have seen father and greater it is because I stood on the shoulder of giants. It is the most important thing I learned, one has to have a mentor/coach who can guide us and correct us, who can chisel away the flaws and inspire and motivate us to go further achieve higher. There is a saying in India that “Both God and Teacher are in front of me, to whom should I bow first, I bow to you o my teacher, it is you who told me about God.”
7. Revisit my goals: Man o man Goals and action plan on paper look so easy and doable that is really thrills me, but I have slipped on many of my goals. In my blogging experience I learned that revisit your goals and making any changes in the action plan to achieve those goals is the most vital part of this process.
8. Have some fun and light articles: No body like just work work or the same information in different wrapper, it is very important to share some light moments and have fun.
9. Link building: Through link building I learned to build relationships with other bloggers, got out of the comfort zone and approached them was able to learn from them as well.
10. Reward yourself: It is a good idea to reward yourself on some accomplisments or major milestones. I came to know that only I can lift myself and needed a self pat on the back when I reached a goal etc.

Thanks and will keep you all updated with the new lessons I am learning on my journey to make money online.

Vijay