A Secret to Blogging Success - Build Upon What You Build

ProBlogger Blog Tips:
This week we’ve been looking at how to reach our potential by overcoming Blogger Inferiority Complex - a condition that cripples many bloggers.
Yesterday I suggested two steps to overcome this problem:
1. Identify What You Have - don’t focus one what you don’t have but instead focus upon what is at your fingertips that can be the foundation on what your future lies. I suggested 11 questions to ask yourself as a blogger to help you work out what you have.
2. Build Upon What You Have - starting with what you’ve got - begin to build from that place rather than being distracted by what others are building in their blogging.
Today I want to suggest a final step - one that comes out of my own experience as a blogger and from watching others succeed in blogging also.
3. Build upon what you Build
Here’s a ’secret’ that I think sets highly successful people apart (in all walks of life) from the rest of us. They don’t just take what they’ve got and build upon it. They then build upon what they’ve built upon and then build again upon that…. and so on.
Many people get to a point with what they do where they become satisfied, content and where complacency sets in. They rest upon their laurels and stop pushing forward. I’ve seen this with a number of bloggers who quickly rose through the ‘ranks’ of blogging to build blogs that began to get…

A Remedy for Blogger Inferiority Complex

ProBlogger Blog Tips: Yesterday I wrote about the problem of blogger inferiority complex and how often as bloggers we can limit our potential by defining ourselves negatively.
Today I want to get a little more constructive and suggest a remedy for this common problem. In doing so I want to help those of us who struggle with a negative self view to make a mind-shift in our thinking.
How do you become more positive in the way that you think about yourself and your blog?
Today I want to suggest two starting points in tackling this problem. Tomorrow I’ll wrap up this mini-series with a third.
1. Identify What You Have:
There’s nothing wrong with aspiring to be something that you’re not, learn something that you don’t know or achieve something that you’ve not achieved before - however sometimes when we’re focusing upon what we don’t have we lose sight of the very thing that could be the key to us going to the next level - what we do have.
When I was in my late teens and early 20’s I spent a lot of time worrying about what I didn’t have and comparing myself to others. As I look back on the way that I lived my life at this time I realized that the motivation for many of the things that I did was that I wanted to be like someone else. The result was a complete mess. I ended up spending so much of my time…

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: May 2008

Smashing Magazine:
Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why since April 2008 we supply you with fresh desktop wallpapers. And to make them a little bit more distinctive from the usual crowd, we’ve decided to embed calendars for the upcoming month. So if you need to look up some date, isn’t it better to show off a nice wallpaper with a nice calendar instead of launching some default time application?
This post features 17 18 free desktop wallpapers with calendars, created by designers across the globe for Smashing Magazine and its readers. Both versions with a calendar and without a calendar can be downloaded and used for free.
Please notice:

all images can be clicked and lead to the preview of the wallpaper,
you can feature your work in our magazine by taking part in our desktop wallpaper calendar series. We are regularly looking for creative designers and artists to be featured on Smashing Magazine. Are you one of them?
Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2008 features desktop wallpapers from the last month.

So what wallpapers have we received for May?
The Model
“The model? She’s my cousin, she’s a model here in Mexico City. I was updating some of her pictures (for her site), and suddenly decided to do the may calendar with her.” Designed by Patricia Villanueva from Mexico.

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