This blog is about the very first steps in blog writing. And this is actually my first blog. I created this blog the day I was first inspired to be a blogger. That is also the day I got to know that blogging was still a thing. I wrote this on 28 April 2024 and published it the same day on medium. I remember feeling really happy, excited and good about myself for being an executer (in fact the title was called I’m an executer!). I changed the title here because SEO analyzer told me I needed to change the subject. Anyway, here goes my first blog.
I’m writing to share my entire process of becoming successful in 3 years, successful enough to have content creator income at minimum matching my day job income (which is actually pretty high). I just came up with that as I write. To be honest, my initial goal up to this minute was to earn about ˜SGD10k/month from this side income but I decided to set a higher goal, cuz why not!
I believe I will reach that goal by the time I quit. That’s just an initial goal, and from there, of course I’ll continue to set new goals to meet. Fast forward to June 2024, I set my goal to have my blog start to bring in 1k/month income from Jan 2025.
I’ve been motivated by many succesful entrepreneurs, mostly in the self improvement/growth space. Since I am going to be one of them, I thought it would be fun and exciting to share my story right from the beginining when I have 0 followers as I write my first blog.
What I did today (total time spent — 120 mins including 70 mins of idling)
- Watched an interview with @ohdleetv where she said to start with blogging (30mins)
- Googled to find out how to start blogging (1min)
- Read 2 sites and learned that some blog sites are free while some aren’t (4mins). Medium.com was free
- Created an account with Medium.com (4mins)
- Post account creation, the link went right to this page to WRITE! Love it. Right into action (< 30 sec)
- Wrote the Title — completely impromptu.. what was on my mind at the exact moment when I heard the interview and told myself that I will start a blog post today when I am back home. (10sec)
- Went about doing other things (70mins) because I didn’t know how to start writing. Other things mainly included packing for my Seoul trip next week 🙂
- Came back to the blog page and started writing. Completely loving my content! (10mins)
- Feeling happy I did this step 1 of my success journey day 1
Again, I’m hoping that this will be read by many like me, who are motivated and inspired to start their zero capital business side income which will take them to a successful entrepreneur of N jobs! We will achieve whatever we set our goals to be!
Oh I should write about why I switched from Medium to having my own domain and host. First the reason for choosing Medium was as per #3 above, it was free. I did not realise at that point that i would not have my own domain if I were to use Medium. After researching a little more, with my intention of the blog to generate income, I read a few articles saying I should have my own domain so I did just that. I will share more on the details of what next steps I took after creating my own domain and starting a WP account on bluehost.
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