5 Winning Mindset Tips For Creating A Website or Blog

If you're reading this, I am assuming you're currently creating a website or are considering creating a website. If that is the case, congrats! I acknowledge that you are taking action in your life and are looking to leverage the experience of others to expedite your success.

On that note, here are some winning mindset tips for creating a website or blog that have helped me stay consistent and positive in creating my own website:

1. Commit to Long-Term Thinking

   • Creating your own website is like raising your own child or puppy: it's a long term investment. You're not going to know what you're doing at first, you're going to make mistakes, and nobody is going to visit your site - AT FIRST.

   • By adopting a long-term thinking mindset, you'll focus more on daily growth than short-term failure.

2. Create An Archive For the Future

   • Create content knowing that people are going to be viewing it in the future, as well as today.

   • The value in your content is not in who sees it today, it's in who sees it - period. 

   • So focus more on creating content consistently, forever, than getting views or getting dollars today.

3. Trust yourself & Believe in Your Vision

   • There's a reason why you're so jazzed about creating a website. Keep that reason in mind, especially if you encounter resistance or doubt from yourself or others.

   • It is 100% possible to achieve whatever vision you have, even if nobody else has done it before. Trust yourself!

4. There is No Right Way (aka your way is the right way)

   • There are a ton of ways to create an awesome, successful website. 

   • If you search the web, you'll find courses, both free and for pay, that will suggest a full on, step-for-step way to build a successful website. Feel free to adopt any strategies or tips from those resources.

   • Ultimately though, do it your way, and learn from your own experience

5. Focus on Consistent Daily Growth

   • As they say "Rome wasn't built in a day." Neither will your website. 

   • It is an ever growing process, in which you will always be improving your website!

The biggest challenge I faced when I first started developing my website, was the lack of perceived success. In my eyes, if my content wasn't going viral or if my affiliate links were bringing in any money, then I'm failing. Similarly, when I'd promote an article or my website on facebook, the lack of likes and comments it would get were disheartening. 

By utilizing the 5 tips above, I shifted my mindset, which changed the way I viewed success in terms of building a website. As content creators, we're creating something for lifetime views not 1,000,000 views today. 

Cheers!!

Why You Should Start Your Own Blog/Website NOW

Building a well optimized and designed website that produces high quality content is not an overnight feat. Yet, that is the vision many of us have when we dream of having our own website. 

We look at the websites of people like Tony Robbins, Apple, or our favorite YouTuber, and we imagine that our website will look similar. Even more, we truly believe that we can create a website as good as them.

Trust me though, if you've ever tried to create a website that people actually care about, that attracts views and clicks, then you know it takes more than just 30 minutes on the Square Space web builder to create something worth someone's time. 

Building an awesome website is no different than building anything else awesome, it takes time and work, and a lot of adjustments. AKA, there's a learning curve that you'll have to go through. 

So START NOW. Who cares if you don't know how. That's why NOW is the time to learn. Cause it's gonna take time to get it where you want it to be. So START NOW. 

Who cares if it sucks. Who cares if nobody visits it. Who cares if nobody cares. Why would they? 

It takes time before people care. They won't be able to care if you don't START NOW, and constantly work on it until they do care. 

Plus! The Internet is here to stay. And creating your own website is equivalent to having your own business, or house, online. You MUST have one if you want to thrive in the society we live in. 

(okay I take that back, you don't have to have a website, but it's a damn smart idea)

CREATE content. It doesn't have to be an award winning article, book, video, or product. Just create stuff that's yours. Who KNOWS what can happen. 

All it takes is one viewer to LOVE your stuff, follow you closely, and share your material. That's all it takes. And all of a sudden you matter to someone's life. Your content WILL matter to someone out there. It won't matter at all though, if you don't create any content and make it visible to others. 

SO START NOW!!! The world is waiting. 

How Does Your Online Content Impact The World?

The reality is that the Internet gives all of us access to any of the infinite articles, videos, websites, products, and other pieces of content hosted online. As such, the ability for even just one article or video to have an impact on the whole human race really isn't out of the question.

Take this string of ripple effect for example:

1. Person A goes online and searches on "break up advice" on YouTube
2. Person A finds a video by a random YouTuber - Person B
   1. I comment on the video, "thanks for this Person B, it changed my life!"
      1. Person B reads this and is inspired to stay strong in his mission
3. inspired by the video, Person A decide to go back to the gym that day
   1. at the gym, Person A plays basketball against Person C
      1. Person A and Person C decide to exchange numbers, they're now friends
      2. Person A and Person C end up being friends for life
4. Person A is now home and in an even greater mood having made a friend
5. Person A creates their own video and shares it on Facebook
   1. Person D comments, "hey your video really made my day"
      1. Person D went from being bored and sad, to entertained and inspired
      2. Person D decide to text their friend, Person E, to hang out
         1. Person D and E hang out together and laugh, they feel great
         2. Person D and E's energy shines while they're in public
            1. the People (F, G, H, ..., Z) around them get a boost of energy just by watching them

Just by one video, one piece of content, Person A, B, C, D, all the way to Z, and beyond, were effected through the ripple effect.

So, ask yourself, what kind of impact does your your social media have on the people that view it? Is your page full of selfies and negative ranting? Or is it of you laughing and sharing your message? Or maybe you don't even post cause you don't think it matters.

That ask yourself, what kind of impact do you WANT your social media to have on the people that view it - and thus the world?

The power that all of us have to impact the world is great. Each one of us has the choice to make an impact on the people who come across our content. 

Take away: we NEVER know what impact our online content will have in the WORLD. Directly and indirectly. 

So if you're someone who's always wanted to start a YouTube channel, a blog, or just be a consistent social media poster - DO IT. There's someone out there who's life is going to change as a result of your content. 

And shoot, this very post may have just changed yours.