I am Quitting Blogging

The is a guest post submitted by Zul of SkorCareer. All content and opinions belong to the author.

“I am quitting blogging.” A friend told me some time ago. He started blogging 3 months back now and wanted to call it a day.

“What?” I am kinda surprised.

“Yes. You heard me right. I am quitting blogging. In fact, I have deleted the contents of my blog. It’s clean now. Empty. Nothing in it.”

“Why? It’s been only 3 months. Don’t you think it’s too early to throw in the towel?”

“No, lah. I had enough already. I am not even sure I did the right thing by jumping into this blogging thing in the first place. I have less than one dollar in my Adsense income and it does not seem to grow. Plus I am also running out of idea to write so my blog is as good as dead.” It seems like there’s no turning back for him.

3 months passed. One day, he came back.

“I am blogging again.”

And so he did. And after another 3 months, guess what, the same thing happened again. He told me he doesn’t to write again. I am not sure if he would ever come back.

This friend went a full circle from writing his first blog entry into making a full stop – twice – in a space of a year, and still ended up nowhere. Had he continue writing short entries in his first blog twice per week, in a year his blog would have grown into having more than 100 articles. Within a year his blog would have a page rank, some link backs, generated a few loyal readers and his income is very likely to grow if he monetizes it right.

It’s very true when motivators said that many people in their life quit at the tip of their success. Just think of the time we boil water. For a good 2 minutes, as the water is heating up, we barely see any changes. But on the molecular level, the H20 particles are agitating, chemical bonds are breaking and once the temperature hits 100 degrees, there’s no stopping it to boil.Unfortunately, many of us, fearing nothing would ever happen, decided to quit at the 99 degrees. Only if we knew how big that one additional 1 percent will bring…

Sometimes the price of quitting is higher than the price of persevering. There’s a classic story of 2 Malaysian bloggers cum internet entrepreneurs who were buddies and had produced their products together. One of them is a mentor to the younger buddy.

One day, the mentor decided to quit the internet for some reason, leaving his friend on his own. Instead of quitting too, the young guy went to create a product that made him more than RM10,000 in a month. The last I know, he made more than RM5,000 in two days with his latest product.

Finally, here’s the story of Robert Kiyosaki when he was embroiled in trouble and was about to quit doing business. How you interpret the meaning of the story is up to you.

Kiyosaki was having financial trouble in getting his business to kick start and he was running out of resources that can drive him further forward. His money was gone, and he and his wife Kim were living in a rundown car.

As a last attempt, he called his rich dad. His rich dad was one of the wealthiest persons in the town, but he never gave any money to Kiyosaki as part of teaching him business, and he was not about to change the pattern. Kiyosaki begged for money and at one time told his dad if he did not get a financial help, he would quit his dream of running a business and find a job instead.

True to his principle, his dad still did not give him any money. And in responding to Kiyosaki’s call to quit, here is his answer,

“You could have always quit long time ago. Why quit now?”

The is a guest post submitted by Zul of SkorCareer. All content and opinions belong to the author.

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