On Friday I had what I consider to be a massive amount of hits. It’s a drop in the bucket compared to most popular websites, but I thought it was some great progress.
The interesting side effect of this “success” is that I immediately thought, “Why are these people reading my site? How did they find it? Where did they come from? Why would they be reading my work?”
Then I realized that those thoughts were somewhat self-sabotaging. I remembered that I want people to read my writing. After all, that is part of the ultimate goal. Instead of thinking it’s weird that people are tuning into the site, I should be pleased that they are.
And after changing my mindset to think that way, I am pleased. With blogging, it feels easy to put myself out there because I tend to think people aren’t reading, even though I want them to. Sometimes they do though, and I have to feel OK with that because that’s part of my definition of success–I want to be able to write books and have people read them. I just have to get a little used to the idea that people will.
So, I’ll be back to the Success issue either later today or early tomorrow, but I wanted to share that little “Aha moment” with you and say thanks for reading. I really appreciate that you decide to spend part of your day with me, and I hope you enjoy it.
