Deadline for authors is like a twin blades ready to cut their throat if they don’t finish what they should have finished before the deadline.

Deadline has become the biggest threaten for all authors in the world. But it’s also have become the most and great brain vitamins to boost inspirations.

Some peoples will works very well under a pressure of a deadline. There some extreme people who ever use this phrase to show how important a deadline is:

Make a deadline or DIE!

Well, I’m not extremist, so my thought is a little bit different. Deadline is important, but not that extreme until you must die.

The effect of Deadline

Deadline is sure a twin edge blade. If you don’t be careful when using, it may tackled your inspirations away to the moon! ;p

There are 2 side to look carefully here:

The Negative Effects

Let’s begin with something not good to hear first. negative effect of setting a deadline is spreading from mental and spiritual influences like:

1. Frustration
2. Body Resistance
3. Tiredness
4. Feeling incompetent
5. Attitude and Aptitude Change (especially for the BlameCaster type of human)
6. Health Problem (for extremist)

Generally, the very basic effect of deadline to us is frustration. Follow by Mental Tiredness and the ever decreasing body resistance to chase for the insane deadline (some deadline are just too insane sometimes), it will try to limit your thought and feel incompetent about what you are working at.

Especially for some type of peoples, you will see a clear change of attitude in facing a near to due deadline. The worst scenario is, a health problem will occur to respond to the deadline.

The Positive Effects

Positive is sure the greatest point that make people dare to take the risks above for the achievement:

1. Make you more creative and insightful
2. Boosting Motivation
3. Focus like a laser that could cut everything
4. Goal minded
5. Solid steel Target to chase
6. Being able to find great joy of achievement

Some people (including me) love to work under a pressure. That’s mean I’m not suitable for something or job that have no deadline to chase. I tend to looks like a super-dumb-dumb individual with no motivation if I have no goals to chase, no due date to fulfill.

Deadline has been my biggest motivator to finish my blogging. It allow me to focus my attention to form a laser like persistence to cut down any kind of distractions. It also will keep reminding you about the upcoming goals.

The most enjoyment in setting a deadline is to feel the extraordinary excitement when you can finish a tough projects right before the tight deadline. It’s feel so good and alive!

Why Setting Deadline?

Because deadline setting is important to pump your heart to feel urge on what you are indulging at. Many times in our life, we tend to become too relax when a jobs with no serious deadline.

Their will be 2 results happening in this case:

Result 1
You will be able to focus and finished the concept without looking at the deadline and publish your post before the deadline.

Result 2
Your are unable to focus because you don’t have an urge feeling to finish it quicker than usually, and finally you forget the task and lose your readership and some popularity around your niche.

Generally, Human is lazy. That’s why so many technology out there to help us human to be more lazy than before!

It’s just so rare to find a person who could survive in the blogging battle of writing in a daily consistency without a clear setting of deadline.

So, Is Deadline Important for You?

Well, it’s your turn to answer this question. Just make sure the deadline will not make you “dead” when chasing after it.

From my 5 months experience in blogging, I have faced several unpleasant experiences that happen to make me lose the taste of blogging. I become less confidence every time those distractions and mental interruptors around me.

I labeled those distraction as “Confidence Corruptor”. It will absolutely corrupting your self-motivation and confidence and make you feel bad all the day.

With this post, I hope you will be aware of the mental interruption that may happen to you and make a quick correction to it before it start corrupting your inner self.

Corruptor 1: Statistic

It’s been a habit for all web master and blogger to track their web/blog everyday to track their marketing efforts. But it’s not recommended to do it everyday for beginner who just step in the first month online. If you are a beginner, make sure to check your statistic not more than 4 times a month.

More than that will mean nothing but a mental distortion and will corrupting your self-confidence. The statistic I refer to is spreading from:

• Bbog Visitor
• PR
• Alexa
• Feed Subscriber
• Adsense
• Technorati
• etc.

Everything is build slowly. Although you are trying to boost your traffic rank with several social bookmarking services, the traffic spike will go down for the next day and everything is calm again.

Except your have read Darren’s post and make a good use of it by entering to the front page of Each social bookmarking regularly!

Installing Adsense Notifier (Plugin for hourly tracking of your adsense earning for firefox browser) is not a good idea for beginner too! Always seeing the “0″ (zero) earning every will surely corrupting your self-confidence.

Corruptor 2: Negative Comments

It’s been a culture for blogger to receive a regular negative comments. It’s good, actually. But our ego won’t hold it for long. There will be an eruption of emotion if we just treasure it in our heart.

Negative comment will sometimes ‘very negative’ which succeed to breaking our self-confidence barrier and make you unstable. Before that happen, It’s wise for you to learn sufficient tips to handle those comments.

Below is the excellent tips for handling negative comment to prevent your inner collapse:

• Mean Spirited comments and blogging
• Negative Blog Comments - Keep You Focus
• How to Deal with Negative Comments

Corruptor 3: Time Limitation

I have been continuously feeling down because of the limitation of time lately. Even I had scheduled everything up, I still feeling not enough and want more time.

May be this is the common problem the everybody should face. God only provide us 24 hours a day and no compromise to add more 2 or 3 hours. Well, we can’t have a trading with God, can we?

“So many things to do, so little time”. This is the sentence that I heard and read a lot at the comments of some high demanding blogger , I also realized that I spoke this sentence more often since the blog is growing!

With so many project to work on, and with the full time job that kill half of my day, I can say that my self-confidence is not as large as before…

Whenever I feel the time limitation, my confidence is decrease to a certain state that make me feel bad for the entire day.

Make sure to follow any newest tips in time management. It is crucial for your future life expanding. Don’t get stuck with the little time and keep thinking on the limitation.

Corruptor 4: Blank Comment Section

You have try your best, you have tweak your content for 2 days. finally, you feel good about the draft post, and you decide to publish it and try to rock the world.

Unfortunately, your content is not respond well. 1 day passed, 2 days passed… No comment at all, although you have 500 subscribers.

3 days passed… no comment. Nobody respond. At this rate, normal human will begin to blame on their live and the unresponsive reader. Or may be you have begin to lose your mood and start to feel discourage and not confident to produce more content.

Zero comment Support from the reader is the biggest headache for every blogger. You will feel rotten and lose your confident when you see a strike Zero between post to post.

What make blogosphere alive is the two ways communication. If your post is not respond well, high possibility that your writing is not in the interest of your reader.

Or you can try to generate more comments by using some useful plugin for wordpress. JohnTP have a good post about top 5 wordpress Plugin that help increase comments. Try to use it to see if your can rise your confidence a bit.

Corruptor 5: Health

Not everybody could work like hell and stay up late to concentrate and set thing up. Health will become the most serious problem when you works too hard on your project.

Bad health will become your confidence corruptor if you don’t care about it. When you sick, everything is not stop moving and wait for you to recover. The net will keep going with the fastest pace as it usually have.

By lying at the bed and cannot do anything because of the sickness, you will regret at what you have done to your body and the abandon project that still need a lot of things to work at.

Make sure to exercise properly, not brain exercise and finger pinching at the keyboard exercise, but doing some yoga or taichi, or may aerobic and Jogging. Those activity really help a lot to avoid Confidence Corruption because of bad Health.

Any comments, Advise, Suggestions? I invite you to share us your idea below.

Haaa… What a good day! I’m having my best ever day today. My Office works are not so hard today, and the climate also cool (we usually having hot day each evening!).

It make me motivated enough to bring up more post today.

This this my first post today, and I want to make it useful for you.

Hope you will enjoy what I bring up for you! Today topic is about “Pre-Selling”. No time wasting, Let’s get Started.

Ok, when you try to find “Presell” in the dictionary, You will found this meaning attached on it:

pre-sell, pre·sold (-sōld’), pre·sell·ing, pre·sells

1. To sell (a house, for example) in advance of construction.
2. To promote (a product not yet on the market) by means of advertising.
3. To condition (a potential customer) in advance for later purchase of a product.

Yes, dictionary always right!

Pre-Sell is always about making a “persuasive-human-voice” and “non-pitch” content before the “sell” actually happen.

The Art of Presell is a real matter for all affiliate marketer (including myself! ) and a real matter for Bloggers! (yup, me too! )

What field a blogger will need preselling skills?

• At Sponsoring People
• At Sponsoring Ads or Payperpost-like paid Post
• At Sponsoring Merchant Product
• At Self-Sponsoring to Reader

Sponsoring people is like an interview or deep discussing on the people’s activities and karma. Great people deserve great endorsement or PREselling to make him/her more popular.

Presell is not always about people, product and affiliate only! Actually, for all day long, you are PREselling!

Presell also have the same meaning of “Relation Building”. It’s an Online Version of Relation building! You do presell everyday in your life, in your business and in any field which indulging a group of peoples.

This also apply the same ways in blogging.

Preselling will heat up your reader “trust” and “respect” through your contents. This is the most important things in relationship buiding. Without trust and respect, you will find a hard time in generating more readers and advertisers.

Writing a content to presell is not about writing a 7000 words essay. or the affiliate marketing won’t survive long!

Writing to presell only need this following element to form your words:

1. Write Clearly, Short, Sharp and Active Sentences
2. Write according to your Own experiences
3. Your Voice must indicated you have own the product, or have met with the great people or something you already have, or done!
4. Have a deep knowledge in the product or people.
5. Spin your content, so your positioning is unique!

Yup, this 5 points should be the crucial key for opening the door to presell. A sentences must be write in a clear, short and the most important should be the “Active Sentences”.

Avoid using too much “be” or passive voice in your sentence. Like the above sentence is a passive voice!

Passive voice indicated a non-self-confident content or something is happen in the past not in the present.

500 words long post will do! Longer is also ok, but never going crazy writing exam essay!

And remember to wrote things based on your own experiences! Never imitated other’s.

Reason?

You have no genuine voice in there! What happen if you are promoting a Supplements but you never try it? You will feel doubt about it!

When you feel doubt? You customer will feel the ways you felt! As a result, Transaction is cancel or unsuccessful…

Reversely, if you have ever try it or may be you actually use the supplement everyday, you will have a deep knowledge about the product. You can state out so many benefits of it, and of course you will know what is the side effect and how to handle it.

In Blogging, If you have a lot of deep knowledge on something you want to write a content about, You will Rock!!

Beside preselling people or your reader, you educate them with your depth of knowledge!

And the best if you can SPIN your content. Spinning content to make a unique voice is crucial since many people have written the same content as yours.

For example, if you want to write about “make money online”. A lot of people tend to find the ways to technically teach you the way to earn online using services like google adwords, payperpost, sponsored reviews, payu2blog, etc, etc.

You’ll may be found something lack in the field, like less people is writing about the psychology effect and handling in making money online. So, that’s your spin!

And It’s my spin too!

You will then write about a post like “How to be Discipline in Making Money Online!” Hey, that’s fresh, I think!

If you don’t have enough knowledge in it, SPIN it again! Fit your knowledge in it. Eventually, you will find one.

Yup, I hope this post will be useful for you.

Let’s meet again in the next post! See ya!

Welcome to the part 3 of the True Wealth in Blogging. Continue from the last two parts, this part have a tight relationship with them. Please consider reading them if you are a new visitor here. To assist you, use this link to jump to each former parts:

1. Discovering the True Wealth In Blogging - Part 1 (about Personal Growth)
2. Discovering the True Wealth In Blogging - Part 2 (about Friendship and Community)

And Today’s topic is about “the third wealth - Fame”.

I’ve make a chart to the right for this post.

As you can see, Fame have a same meaning of Popularity. Fames are made of Friends’ Vote and Your Blog’s Quality Contents.

There are 2 ways to build fame, Long term or short term:

1. From a long term relationship with your friends so they vote for your fame, or
2. You do a Heart Touching OR Heart Piercing Topics that make you get an immediate popularity boosting for a certain time.

I’ve found many people try to get attention by doing heart Piercing action like try to challenge to enter to a volcano when the magma is erupting! If he can stay alive, He’s name will soar to the sky! He will immediately become “onfocus” by the world.

Or, Do some heart touching action! See this video and you will know!

See how this little girl get famous?

It’s really that easy? Nope!!! Believe me, this little girl indeed have a very “brave” heart to stand and sing on the stage facing hundreds, thousands of peoples.

If I’m at her age, I still playing my Lego on my small room and wouldn’t dare to stand facing those peoples!

To be famous, You need to be brave and dare to push your own limit to the maximum states and gain what you need. That’s what the “Q.Content” or “Quality Content” mean of on the chart! Content of your personality, your braveness, courage, or you habit’s quality that will make you feeling self confident in doing anything.

In the world of blogging, the blogosphere, Q.Content and Friends play the most important key that decide your “fail and success” in blogging. That’s the main ingredients to stay Famous, anyway!

No one can success without friends, and no one can success without Quality Content within their heart!

If you can’t maintain this 2 keys, ready to pack your goods and say good bye to the blogosphere!

Reversely, if you manage to maintain and develop this two keys, you will gain small little fame along the way. This Fame will add up hours by hours, days by days, and finally, you’ll become famous from the accumulation of Fame that your friends’ vote for your contents and presenting style!

According to human style, Fame can be develop in 2 different ways. To be famous by:

• Doing something good or become an angel, or
• Doing something evil or become a Lucifer!

Both will make you famous in different term. Of course, both ways will attract different kind of friends too! That’s what “Law of Attraction” talking about. Angel will attract Angels and Lucifer will attract Lucifers!

Fame is your Third wealth that you should get automatically when you have successfully (becoming angel or Lucifer) finding and build your first and second wealth.

If you have a nice presenting style and willing to struggle hard enough, Fame will not running away from you!

I also found a great site that you can vote “fame” for yourself and your friend. I’ve join it a week ago. And I have been voted by 12 friends! If you are interested, please vote for me too at bloggingtofame.com

I can’t imagine how am I going to be famous, since this it’s an accumulation, I will let time decide it all. Famous is not my key or purpose, serving you is my key. Bringing you the best that I can is my key, and making a good friend with you is my ultimate key!

Shoot me your ideas, I would like to hear your opinions on “Fame”. Let’s share this and helping each other to gain our own “Fame”!

In the next part, we will begin to “touch” the technical ways to make your blog looks credible. And as a little preview, on the part 6, I will let you know how to bring “real traffic” to your blog that not just a window shopper! Stay tune and please consider to subscribe to my Feed if you like this post!

See ya!

Blogging is something for fun, but at the same time, blogging can be very-very stressful if you are doing it for money.

Although there are many people who have already successfully become a problogger or sixth figures income earner, they are not simply there easily!

Along the way, they are tempered, fried, toasted by many-many obstacles, negative thoughts readers, technical error, and human-discrimination in blogging.

Positive thinking is one of many ways for blogger to keep themselves “exist” in the blogosphere.

I have read some interesting facts on blogging. From 100% Blog owners, only around 10-20% who really updating their blogs and only around 30-40% who become a reader of all the blogs around the world.

And from 100% of bloggers, 98% of them will be in the state of “Sudden-Death” in 3 months from begin their first post because of giving up eventually or destroyed by negative thinking either for themselves or from their readers!

Source: My Local Internet Magazine 2007

You may surprised, but that’s the fact anyway… Mr.Lee Gibbons have something to say about active blogging percentage.

Owning a positive thinking along your blogging journey is not easy, people tend to think negatively when they face obstacles and annoying readers. But, owning a positive thinking is doable!

The Father of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale, Share us his ultimate knowledge on thinking positively in every domain you’re lurking at, including blogging.

I will introduce you to Norman Vincent Paele with this short video:

Please take of all your egos and logical mind before watch at this video. Or, Put aside your judging mind first, because only with that, you’ll understand “deeply” what Mr. Norman said.

In this short story, try to switch the example of Mr. Norman to your own section or domain you are doing at. Mr. Norman was talking about Magazine subscription. You may switch your thinking to your “Feed Subscription” or “Click Through Rate”, or “Affiliate Sales” will do!

In his classic book, The Power of Positive Thinking,Mr. Norman teach us how to create, maintain and increase our positive thinking and habits. I happen to read his book, so I can give a guideline of what he was sharing at in my own words on blogging:

• Visualize in your mind what’s your blog’s goals and form a solid image on you mind. Always maintain this obsession of yours and don’t let it disappear in any reason! Your mind will try to make your visualization become true!

• On your daily life, Negative thinking is your permanent guest in your “thinking guest room”. Try to kick this guest out of your “guest room” with a positive thinking.
• Don’t always “think” about your obstacles and roadblocks in blogging. Instead, you need to “learn” and “face it” efficiently. Don’t Hyping your problems too, because that will terrifying yourself even more!

• Don’t too obsessed by other’s blog style and try to follow their style too! Just Be Yourself. No one know you better than yourself. And don’t forget, A person who looks strong outside may be weak inside because of their own doubtfulness about themselves!

• Make your own judgment toward yourself. Rate yourself from copywritting skill, communication with other blogger, idea to improve your blog, etc, etc. And try to improve them by 10% each!

Watch Will Smith on Positive Thinking!

As a star actor, Will smith need positive thinking better than anyone. So, if you are going to be famous as a blogger or pro blogger, at least, you need to have the similar principle as Will Smith have.

Sneak peek of Larry King Interview with top motivators in the world about Positive Thoughts:

I write this post, but I’m not showing you that I was perfectly positive with my works. I’m also a “learner” to be a positive thinker! And I think Norman Vincent Peale’s Tips is working for me.

I will keep maintaining my “+”, positive thinking wherever I am, on whatever I do, and whoever I’ll face!

How about you?